Re: [open-cobol-list] Dialect emulation and "E-Level messages"

[Bernard Giroud]

Keisuke Nishida a écrit :

> At Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:37:58 -0600,
> William M. Klein wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
>

I totally agree with Bill.

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Bernard Giroud
Open Source COBOL Tools Developer