RE: gnubol: Name is Select/Assign clause

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

> -----Original Message-----
  <snip>
> >
>
> AFAIK, to have the identifier point to an environment variable, you have
> to use the EXTERNAL keyword, and to have the identifier point to a
> Working-storage member, you have to use the keyword DYNAMIC, in the
> ASSIGN clause (separate from the ACCESS clause--two allowable DYNAMICs.

 <more snip>

Look at the "ASSIGN" directive and you will see that this may ALSO be changed
by a directive (without changing the source code).  As neither "EXTERNAL" nor
"DYNAMIC" is ANSI/ISO conforming in this context, that is how to "control"
this in a Standard conforming source program.


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