Re: Reviving REMARKS

LX-i asked:
<<At what point did the NOTE end - was it a sentence-level statement, or was
it a "until the next paragraph, everything is a comment" statement?>>

I don't have a '68 standard, but I do have some early reference materials
and I think I can draw some valid conclusions from them. I think the
answer is "Yes".

The wording from a reference manual for a COBOL-60 (!) implementation on the
Burroughs B6500 (!!) from '68 and the corresponding wording from an IBM DOS
COBOL manual from '73 is the same:

"If a NOTE sentence is the first sentence of a paragraph, the entire
paragraph is considered to be part of the character string. Proper format
rules for paragraph structure must be observed.

If a NOTE sentence appears as other than the first sentence of a paragraph,
the commentary ends with the first instance of a period followed by a
space."

-Chuck Stevens


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