Re: Problem With Cobol Report Writer

.. On 16.04.05
wrote riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard)
on /COMP/LANG/COBOL
in 1113676699.610450.255030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
about Re: Problem With Cobol Report Writer


r> It may well be that the PROCEDURE DIVISION should be divided up into
r> SECTIONs. In fact I used to do that for the purpose of using
r> 'priorities' in order to overlay the program into the memory space
r> available to me.

This is ancient ... but has nothing to do with the SECTION as such.
I have never played around with segmentation.

r>
r> But it doesn't follow, as you seem to claim, that these SECTIONs
r> should therefore be what the PERFORMs target.

This is a questin of individual discipline or shop standards. It
just makes sense, and it made much more sense before COBOL-85 was
implemented which finally made proper programming possible in COBOL.

It is a simple rule: PERFORM only SECTIONs, never a paragraph, and
GOTO only to paragraphs, never SECTIONs.

Today, where a GOTO is superflouus even in COBOL, I see the only
sense in paragraphs to serve as a visual documentation tool.

r> After all one doesn't INITIALISE WORKING-STORAGE as a SECTION.

I don't understand what that is supposed to mean.


Yours,
Lüko Willms http://www.willms-edv.de
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