Small correction: Cobol calls it "reference modification". A substring by another name...
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 9:15 AM, john gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > At last! <SNIP> > > These things said, it must also be conceded that the important new features > that IBM has added to Enterprise COBOL, e.g., pointers and address > modification (the curious COBOL terminology for substring operations), have > been very little used. (Pointer usage, which would greatly simplify many > COBOL CICS APs, is still, for example, exiguous in them.) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
