Re: gnubol: Compiler Limits

["J & C Migrations, Pty." <migrate@tiac.net>]

At 06:09 AM 12/27/99 EST, RKRayhawk@aol.com wrote:
>
>Someone in here said that there are no limits to the number of WHEN clauses 
>in an EVALUATE statement.  Is that what the standard says.
>
>A notable mainframe vendor sets two limits relevant to this
> 
> EVALUATE subjects are limited to 64, that would in effect be 63 ALSO clause 
>plus one leader. And the EVALUATE WHEN clauses  are limited to 256.
>
>Seems like with an eight bit character code you cannot possibly have a lower 
>limit on the WHEN clauses. Does anybody have information on other vendors?  

I have yet to push that limit in my environments, but at least in the Wang
VS/AIX/HPUX COBOL85 compiler there was no such limit, because the WHEN
phrases were trees in the EVALUATE orchard.

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