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Re: [open-cobol-list] Bug Report
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John R. Culleton |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] Bug Report |
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Thu Oct 6 11:11:55 2005 |
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On Thursday 06 October 2005 05:07 pm, Robert Sherry wrote:
> I claim the program below should compile:
>
> IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
> PROGRAM-ID. FFWER100.
> AUTHOR. MRK S.
> DATE-WRITTEN. NOV 07, 2002.
> DATE-MODIFIED. NOV 21, 2002.
> DATE-COMPILED.
>
> PROCEDURE DIVISION.
> STOP RUN.
>
> With the latest version of Open Source COBOL compiler it does not.
> Therefore, I claim that it is a bug.
>
> Bob Sherry
DATE-MODIFIED is not standard COBOL AFAIK. I have never seen it
before. It was not used in COBOL-68, COBOL-74 or COBOL-85. And
it is highly unlikely that COBOL-2000 added it. In general the
Powers-That-Be have taken things out of the IDENTIFICATION
DIVISION (to my sorrow) instead of adding them.
--
John Culleton
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