Re: Misnomers in the COBOL standard


"William M. Klein" <wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You have to hear the "present" to understand that it is (intended) to be:

"present" - as in give forth or show (cf. "present an award")
and NOT
"present" as in "not absent"

There was LOTS of discussion about this when the '02 Standard was
developed. I
am NOT disagreeing that there is a "problem" - but did want you to
understand
HOW it came about.

And, sometime after J4 had their discussion, I had one,
using e-mail, with Mr Piggot and Mr Hubbell where all
that was explained; so I will disagree that I "have to hear
the 'present' to understand". Having heard it with my own
voice, I still don't understand. <G>

Perhaps someone could rewrite the introduction to remove
the idea of "selection", replacing it with the idea of
"presentation". Maybe then it will become sensible, to me;
though I doubt it, since I seem unable to grasp the meaning
of "presenting data description entries to a VALIDATE
statement", while "selecting data description entries for a
VALIDATE statement" makes perfect sense.

[The introduction actually states "The PRESENT WHEN
clause also enables conditional selection of data description
entries by the VALIDATE statement."]



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