[open-cobol-list] Bindings via perform statement?

[Patrick]

Hi Everyone

Just a nutty idea on my lunch break....

Via the call statement we can call programs in other languages. If those 
other programs are compiled right in with the cobol executable then they 
can potentially maintain state as global variables and static variables 
within functions.

With the C program Foo we can call the function Foo-You but the call 
syntax could get a bit tiresome with many arguments and many of the 
arguments may even be the same each time. For instance with the Lua 
language API the first argument to each function is usually a pointer to 
the Lua state struct, normally called L.

I actual don't want to use Lua right now but there are all sorts of 
libraries I do.

If each call statement was wrapped in a perform statement, could we 
don't potentially reduce the typing and make a Cobol-Way binding to a 
given library?

If this was logical, I wondering if I could even write a binding 
generator, that would automatically wrap each function.

-Patrick