Re: [open-cobol-list] Re: Redefines question

[Alain Lucari]

Le Sat, 07 May 2005 15:17:50 +0200
Roger While <address@hidden> a écrit:

> Now thoroughly confused.
> Here's 13.16.42.3 on page 337 - point 1 :
> 1) Storage association for the subject of the entry starts at the
> first bit of the data item referenced by data-name-2
> and continues over an area sufficient to contain the number of bits 
> required by the data item referenced by the
> subject of the entry. If the subject of the entry requires more bits
> than the data item referenced by data-name-2,
> the storage area allocated for the data item referenced by
> data-name-2 and the subject of the entry is the
> number of bits required by the data item referenced by the subject
> of the entry. The size used for references
> to the data item referenced by data-name-2 is not changed.
> 
> Hmmm.
> Clarification ?
> 
> Roger
>
Euh...
it seem to me that some "cobolists" (?)
  1/don't know the cobol rules,
 or
  2/ are too lazzy for count the lenght of their fields
 and 
  3/ should continue to use their "funny" compiler wich 
     is not able to detect some errors that OC detect.

In any case, don't broke the so good compiler for "not important"
things.

This my half cent ...

Regards   
-- 
Alain Lucari (Eurlix)