Re: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"


"Frank Swarbrick" <Frank.Swarbrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:47D56BE4.6F0F.0085.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 3/9/2008 at 2:16 PM, in message
<HAXAj.5290$FE.820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, William M.
Klein<wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
I am perplexed by some of the things they don't think would be useful to the
average Cobol programmer. Variable length fields and (dynamic capacity)
tables are features that I personally think would be very useful! Seems
that exception handling could use a rework, but why eliminate RESUME. I've
never really understood how Cobol 2002 exception handling is suppose to work
anyway...

Frank

Frank,
I am not certain that they are saying that some of these features wouldn't be
"useful". However, as currently defined (in WD 1.10) there are both technical
problems and the run-time overhead would be significant.


--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com


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