Re: SEARCH ALL

"Chuck Stevens" <charles.stevens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Put a different way, if the programmer already knows that SEARCH ALL
(rather
> than SEARCH) is the wrong thing to do, for whatever reason, he's not going
> to use it. If SEARCH ALL is the right thing to do, and the implementor
uses
> a serial search for SEARCH ALL, the *programmer* is no worse off than if
he
> had used SEARCH.

Radical thinking, sir.

You are asking that the programmer both understand standard COBOL *AND*
think about the application before he or she actually puts code on
paper/screen.

Thou asketh much.

(Hmm, just noticed the Unisys domain... I used to work for a Unisys VAR...
well, they actually were a Burroughs VAR, but then Burroughs and Sperry
begat Unisys so we became -overnight! - a Unisys VAR.

MCM






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