Re: [GNU-COBOL] New to list

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

Davyd Ondrejko wrote:
...
> I can see that point, yes.  But why would you want to specify a decimal
> point at the right of the PIC when it's pretty much implicit there by
> default?

If you had 

pic 9(3)v. 

then the v is redundant.

But move 3 to 

pic 9(3).. (period in pic plus fullstop)

gives 003.

Move 3 to

pic 9(3).  (no period in pic, plus fullstop)

gives 

003

So they are different. Why would you want to do that? Don't know
but nothing programmers do will surprise me - it's in the
language anyway.

Tim Josling

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