[open-cobol-list] Minor difference of Open-Cobol and IBM MVS Cobol II compiler

[David Korn]

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Subject: Minor difference of Open-Cobol and IBM MVS Cobol II compiler
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The following program compiles with the IBM compiler and yields
a parse error
prog14.cob:6: parse error, unexpected ENVIRONMENT, expecting RECURSIVE or 
COMMON or TOK_INITIAL
with OpenCobol.

======================prog14.cob=======================
       IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
       PROGRAM-ID.   FPR2DS01
       AUTHOR.       DAVID Korn
       DATE-WRITTEN. 06/20/2003.
       DATE-COMPILED. 09/26/03.
       ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
       CONFIGURATION SECTION.
       SOURCE-COMPUTER.                IBM-3090.
       OBJECT-COMPUTER.                IBM-3090.
======================prog14.cob=======================

A period after PROGRAM-ID.   FPR2DS01 fixes the problem but it looks
as if it is optional with the IBM compiler.

David Korn
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