RE: gnubol: "Illegal" Next Sentence

["William M. Klein" <wmklein@ix.netcom.com>]

Constants (defined in the program), compile-time expressions, and conditional
compilation are ALL included in the draft of the next Standard - but not
included in the current Standard.  Many vendors have (incompatible)
extensions for them already.

Bill Klein
  wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gnu-cobol@wallace.lusars.net
> [mailto:owner-gnu-cobol@wallace.lusars.net]On Behalf Of Michael McKernan
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 8:08 AM
> To: gnu-cobol@lusArs.net
> Cc: Owner-Gnu-Cobol; mck@tivoli.mv.com
> Subject: Re: gnubol: "Illegal" Next Sentence
>
>
> I don't have a whole lot of interest in improving this hack, but its
> use of a constant variable ;-) reminds me to put the question.  Are
> compile time expressions still prohibited in COBOL?  I'm not trying
> to start another extensions thread, but, syntactically, a numeric
> literal is an arithmetic expression.
>
> Mike
>
> >>>>> "Bill" == William M Klein <wmklein@ix.netcom.com>
> >>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 6 Dec 1999 00:00:18 -0600
>
>   Bill> B) Create a COPY member called NextSentence which has the
>   Bill> following code in it:
>
>   If Next-Sentence = Space
>     If Next-Sentence = Space
>         Next Sentence
>     Else
>         Continue
>   Else
>      Continue
>   End-IF
>
>
>
>
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