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

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:18:42 -0300, Clark F Morris
<cfmpublic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But that's only my experience, I can't speak for the industry.
I believe that OCCURS DEPENDING ON is useful for tables that can have
a variable number of entries and are in sequence for searching using
SEARCH ALL.

It can save a search over my using a big table with high value records
at the end. On the other hand, it adds overhead as the run-time
program figures out sizes.

I suspect the savings you might think is there is illusory.
.

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