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From: | Roger While |
Subject: | Re: [open-cobol-list] "AUTHOR" is still a reserved word. |
Date: | Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:33:29 +0200 |
Yep, that's called legacy :-) Unfortunately, because of the legacy syntax, AUTHOR along with things like DATE-WRITTEN can not be "unreserved". We do have a feature to "unreserve" words. See (0.33) config/mvs.conf at the bottom for an example. But you do have to admire the standards that allow a minimum prog (compilable with OC 0.33) of - PROGRAM-ID. MIN. This will (OC 0.33) compile and run as an executable (cobc -x MIN.cob) or as a callable module (cobc -m MIN.cob) :-) :-) Roger
I complain long and loud aobut the evisceration of the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION ovr the years. It was a bit of a surprise then to have a program refuse to compile when I used that word as a data name. -- John Culleton
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