Re: [open-cobol-list] Compiler modifications

[Alain Lucari]

Hello Roger,

Le Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:44:08 +0200
Roger While <address@hidden> a écrit:

I agree with what you ave writted, so i suppress,
unless
... (nip) ... 
> This leaves (7)
> As stated before, the rules are quite clear.
> Fixed-format : Column 7 and that will/can NOT
> be changed. Here, columns 1 to 6 are ignored.
> Imagine we start looking for an asterisk in columns
> 1 to 6 - I have any number of ported apps that
> (mis)use columns 1 to 6 for commenting/highlighting
> code; INCLUDING an asterisk !
> 
> Free-format : Column 1 and column 1 only.
NO : in free-format it is possible to put a comment
anywhere on a line with "*>" and 
  COMPUTE fld1 = fld2  *> Unit price
  * fld3 *> quantity
  END-COMPUTE
is perfectly correct.

> Consider these 3 lines (First character of each
> line starts in column 3) -
>    COMPUTE fld1 = fld2
>    * fld3
>    END-COMPUTE.
> If we slide line 2 to the left so that the
> asterisk begins in column 1, it becomes
> a comment   :-)
> (And still is valid code)
>
... (snip) ...

Best regards, 
-- 
Alain Lucari (Eurlix)