Re: [open-cobol-list] How does Cobol parse the Procedure Division ?

[Vincent Coen]

On Wednesday 25 Sep 2013 18:27:25 Fred Mobach wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 September 2013 17:07:27 Patrick wrote:

> > Every language I know of has some sort of character

> > to end a statement. It might be a non printable character but it's

> > there.

>

> AFAIK early versions of Fortran and RPG didn't have statements

> separators.

 

RPG (1) did, it was just based on a card column as it was structured around indicators and Fortran (1 e.g., not Fortran 4), that was the last char on a line but you are right in the primary sense.

 

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