Re: List Tag of [GNU-COBOL] is too long

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

Thank you. We need more of these. 

You could read the whole cobol standard without being bothered by
any inkling of the developments in parser theory of the last 20
years.

It is some consolation that they seem to have at last grasped the
concept of logical phases of compilation as an aid to explaining
the precedence of rules and the like.

Tim Josling

Christopher Clark wrote:
> ...
>     And point out that the IF statement _parses_ differently depending on which
> version of Z is included, since as a field, the actual test is:
>     (X = Y) OR (X = Z)
>     but if the 88 version is included, the actual test is:
>     (X = Y) OR Z              =>        (X = Y) OR (Y = 2)

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