Re: May I introduce myself to cobol?...

From: William M. Klein (wmklein_at_nospam.netcom.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:53:32 GMT

"Richard" <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote in message
news:1108589970.105316.216170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> I think Cobol language have the power, knowledge and more
>> than 40 years of real-world experience, to circumvent all the
>> problems and the limitations, of the way that C or C++ uses
>> expressions in function calls.
>
> Please explain how Cobol could 'circumvent all the problems and the
> limitations' while actually using expressions that include CALL ...
> RETURNING ...
>
See my separate note on the support in both Micro Focus and the ISO 2002
Standard for arithmetic expressions in BY CONTENT and BY VALUE phrases - when
CALL prototypes are used.

"Obviously" these cannot be used in the RETURNING or BY REFERENCE phrases. 

-- 
Bill Klein
 wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com

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