Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: RES: line continuation problem

[Christian Lademann]

Maybe I'm a little naive, but I don't see the point in
NOT allowing line continuation under specific circumstances
as long as the language is non-ambiguous. From my point of
view line continuation is more a formatting aid than a
feature of the cobol language, regardless what the standards
say. I always find it annoying to stumble over a highhanded
exception of a simple rule. I think that line continuation
should be allowed under all and every circumstances where the
semantic rules are not touched. This said I think that open-
cobol should be allowed to divert from dialects and bugs
of other cobol compilers for good reasons, at least as an
option.

Roger, thank you very much for giving open-cobol a new drive.

Regards,

Christian Lademann

BTW: How about 78'er definitions?

 

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:57:59 -0600
"Bill Klein" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sorry for not commenting earlier.  The problem (as I see it) in the original
> code (and why I do NOT think it is ANSI/ISO conforming) was that the
> continued (2nd) line ended with a quotation mark in column 72.  The next
> line had a continuation mark (hyphen) in column 7 - but the first non-blank
> character in B-margin was a period (full-stop).
> 
> I haven't searched for the "reference" yet within the '85 Standard, but I do
> NOT believe that one can use the continuation area to "continue" BETWEEN a
> quotation mark separator and the following period separator.
> 
> I could be mistaken on this (and I have asked some people at MF if this is a
> "documented" extension there) but I certainly do not THINK that ANSI/ISO '85
> allows this.  Neither would the '02 Standard when "fixed form reference
> format" is in effect.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden 
> > [mailto:address@hidden On 
> > Behalf Of Roger While
> > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:44 AM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [open-cobol-list] Re: RES: line continuation problem
> > 
> > Sorry, I cannot reproduce this.
> > Compiling with "-fixed" and any dialect (-std=) works OK.
> > I even tried extending the lines with spaces to column 80 and beyond.
> > Still works.
> > Check that you are really using 0.31 ( cobc -V )
> > If so and you still have problems send me the program as an 
> > attachment.
> > Where is Guenter's original mail ?
> > 
> > Roger
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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