INSPECT does not permits FUNCTION

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#1184 INSPECT does not permits FUNCTION

Milestone: unclassified

Status: accepted

Owner: nobody

Labels: INSPECT (9) intrinsic (13) user-defined function (2)

Priority: 4

Updated: 2026-01-28

Created: 2026-01-28

Creator: Eugenio Di Lorenzo

Private: No

Bug description: see [1e7529dc5d], providing sample code as well

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Simon Sobisch - 2026-01-28

labels: --> INSPECT, intrinsic, user-defined function

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status: open --> accepted

Priority: 5 - default --> 4

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Simon Sobisch - 2026-01-28

Note that when adding the tests to GnuCOBOL the raise of runtime exceptions in case of non-matching sizes also need to be done.

For INSPECT some-func (some-thing) with CONVERTING or REPLACING the compiler would ideally warn that the result is not stored (only counters may be set in the end - note: it is not worth it to then make a no-op out of it because it may still raise runtime exceptions and calling the functions - if they aren't intrinsics - may have side effects as well).

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