>>> On 10/9/2009 at 7:15 AM, in message <[email protected]>, john gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.)
Do you mean "reference modification", added with Cobol II? I use it quite often. And POINTER as well, when it makes sense. The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
