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Re: [open-cobol-list] Dialect emulation and "E-Level messages"
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Keisuke Nishida |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] Dialect emulation and "E-Level messages" |
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Wed Mar 10 15:06:05 2004 |
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At Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:37:58 -0600,
William M. Klein wrote:
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> The whole "point" of E-level messages (in those environments that provide
> such) is to allow a compile to "complete" so that the programmer can get/see
> as many ERRORS as possible from one compile. The purpose is NOT to allow
> "bad source code" into production use.
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> E-Level error messages *do* tell what the "compiler is assuming" (even
> though it is ALWAYS different from what was coded). It is expected that the
> programmer will FIX the source code to MATCH the desired (and supported)
> behavior.
That is very understandable. Thomas, what do you think?
Keisuke