RE: gnubol: Re: The token "IS"

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

Sorry, if I wasn't clearer.  It is absolutely true that "IS" never has any
syntactic significance in the '85 Standard.  HOWEVER, there are rules
governing when/how it can be used, so you need to "flag" (error) mis-uses of
it, even though it never means anything.

Does that help?

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 Mike Mckernan
> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 10:16 AM
> To: gnu-cobol@lusars.net
> Subject: gnubol: Re: The token "IS"
>
>
> >>>>> "Bill" == Mike Mckernan <mckernan@const.zko.dec.com>
> >>>>> wrote the following on Tue, 7 Dec 1999 11:05:24 -0500 (EST)
>
>   Bill> For the '85 Standard, you need some "rules" to handle
>   Bill> extensions (or errors) where "is" is used incorrectly, e.g.
>
>   Bill>    Label Records ARE (not IS) is conforming as is Label
>   Bill> Record IS (not ARE)
>
>   Bill> There are several other places where IS/ARE distinctions
>   Bill> occur - and some places where ONLY "is" is allowed.
>
> I don't have access to the standard at this moment, but if memory
> serves, "IS/ARE" are never required.  That means if I should lex out
> "IS" but not "ARE" the input my parser would expect for these cases
> would be:
>
> 	Label Record Standard
>
> 	Label Records [ARE] Standard
>
> If there are no other impediments, it should still be OK.
>
>
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