RE: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Added function

[William M. K. <wm...@ix...>]

I am a "mere" COBOL person.  Can you tell me what you mean by "string
literals"?  I can think of several "possible" meanings (in COBOL terms) but
don't know what you mean by them.

NOTE: The draft Standard provides a facility called "Concatenation
Expression" (defined in "8.8.3 Concatenation expressions" on page 124 of CD
1.10).  If this is what you are talking about, make certain that you look at
rules concerning figurative constants, class and category, etc.

P.S.  If by "string literals," you are referring to (what I know as)
ASCII-null-terminated-strings, then this is NOT allowed in the draft
Standard - but is implemented (as an extension) in several compilers by the
use of Z-literals. If these are of interest, then I can point to either IBM
or MERANT LRM entries for them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cob...@li...
> [mailto:cob...@li...]On Behalf Of Tim
> Josling
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 3:33 PM
> To: cobolforgcc-devel
> Subject: [Cobolforgcc-devel] Added function
>
>
> I have now added concatenated string literalss (in all contexts
> where strings can be used ie non-numeric literals.
>
> I also added support for 64 bit integers BINARY-DOUBLE. Display
> now works with all the numeric and display formats that are
> supported.
>
> Adding new function is not too hard but COBOL is *big*.
>
> Tim Josling
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