Re: dubbuging that script


Howard Brazee wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:18:50 GMT, "William M. Klein"
<wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually a semi-colon followed by a space IS allowed in every Standard of COBOL
(at least since the 74 Standard) wherever a comma followed by a space may be
used, which is also where a space by itself may be used, e.g. the following is
valid 85-Standard code (but NOT something that I would recommend!)

05; This-field, Pic, ; 9.


I wonder what the clearest way of writing the following is:

05 This-field PIC 9..

I wonder if the overuse of semicolons is a tab marker forcing alignment
in the editor?

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