Re: Is it always possible to write a COBOL program using only 1 sentence per paragraph?
- From: docdwarf@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 12 Jul 2005 09:26:00 -0400
In article <vcPAe.149478$on1.126481@clgrps13>,
Oliver Wong <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> Hmm, interesting. I did not find any mention of "NEXT SENTENCE" in any
>of the documentation I initially used as references for the COBOL language,
>but based on the discussions I've found on the web, it looks like NEXT
>SENTENCE is an unconditional jump to the statement immediately following the
>period of the sentence containing the NEXT SENTENCE statement, as you've
>said.
Leaving aside the persnickety labelling for statement, sentence,
imperative, instruction, what happens at the end of a paragraph (etc)...
would someone pass this along to The Standards Folks and ask them for what
reason - given this level of interpretation shown by a rank neophyte -
they think the function of NEXT SENTENCE is so difficult to grasp?
Well done, Mr Wong!
DD
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