FW: FW: [Cobolforgcc-devel] New code added

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

After sending Tim the attached, I went to the IBM LRM and it states the
following (in BLUE as an IBM extension),

"As an IBM extension, the EXIT statement does not need to appear in a
sentence by
itself. Any statements following the EXIT statement are executed; the EXIT
statement is treated as the CONTINUE statement."

-----Original Message-----
From: William M. Klein
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:10 PM
To: Tim Josling
Subject: RE: FW: [Cobolforgcc-devel] New code added


Tim,
  I just was recently reminded that both Micro Focus and IBM have a
"documented" extension allowing EXIT to *not* be the only statement in a
paragraph.  I have *not* yet figured out what they do with it when it isn't,
e.g.

  If A = "A"
     Display "This"
     Exit
  Else
    Display "That"
  End-If
  Display "Does this show up if A = 'A'?"
     .

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ti...@me... [mailto:ti...@me...]On Behalf Of Tim
> Josling
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 4:20 PM
> To: William M. Klein
> Subject: Re: FW: [Cobolforgcc-devel] New code added
>
>
> Bill,
>
> True - continue is a no-op. But I have to put some code in to
> warn if exit is not the only verb in a paragraph. IF is a
> different story - by the way I will be interested in some test
> cases for that but only using the compiler subset data types
>
> display pic x(n).
> binary/comp-6/comp pic 9(n).
> binary-char/short/long/double
> plus 88 levels for these types
>
> Not including
> - any special names things
> - any class tests (NUMERIC etc).
>
>
> Regards,
> Tim Josling
>
> "William M. Klein" wrote:
> >
> > (not posted) <JOKE>
> >   I think that even *I* could almost do CONTINUE and EXIT (if
> you mean the
> > '85 Standard EXIT - and not the "new" EXIT
> PARAGRAPH/SECTION/CYCLE stuff)
> >