Re: [open-cobol-list] OC issues (more)

[Alain Lucari]

Hi John,

Le Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:32:24 -0500
"John R. Culleton" <address@hidden> a écrit:

> On Tuesday 17 January 2006 01:18 pm, Sergey Kashyrin wrote:
> > Hi again.
> > All of that is about compatibility with MAJOR compilers (390,
> > AS/400, MF, FJ) in a situations when program is incorrect.
> >
> >        IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
> >        PROGRAM-ID. ztest INITIAL.
> >        ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
> >        DATA DIVISION.
> >        WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
> >        PROCEDURE DIVISION.
> >            PERFORM 01-SUB.
> >            PERFORM 02-SUB.
> >            GOBACK.
> >        01-SUB.
> >            DISPLAY "TEST1 OK".
> >        01-EXIT.
> >            EXIT.
> >        02-SUB.
> >            DISPLAY "TEST2 OK".
> >        01-EXIT.
> >            EXIT.
> 
> Paragraph name 01-EXIT is defined twice. The compile should error
> off. 
> 
> The exit paragraphs are superflouous in any case because there are
> no PERFORM---  THRU --- statements. 
> 
> Decades ago IBM upgraded COBOL D(?) and programs started blowing
> up. They had paragrahs not terminated by a period. But that was
> just sloppy programming.
> 
> No one should construct a compiler IMO to accept syntax errors
> just because other compilers are silent on the errors. 
> 
BRAVO : it's just what I think and write other (because I am not
really fluent in english)

Best regards,
-- 
Alain Lucari (Eurlix)