|
| From: | vince |
| Subject: | Re: [open-cobol-list] Sections in PROCEDURE DIVISION |
| Date: | Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:44:03 +0000 |
| User-agent: | KMail/4.6.1 (Linux/2.6.39.4-5.1-desktop; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) |
On Thursday 14 Mar 2013 09:14:28 john Culleton wrote: > The OC COBOL Manual written by Gary Cutler is so good that I hesitate > to mention one omission. Most of us don't use sections in the PROCEDURE > DIVISION any more, if we ever did. But there are still older programs > around that used that construct. Gary mentions them only in connection > with the SORT verb. The construct deserves a separate mention. Well here is one programmer that does use Sections within Cobol programs. Performing Sections is more efficient then paragraphs with 'thru' in most implementations.
| [Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |