> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 10:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Recursive PERFORM in COBOL > > Even if the standard is written that way it would be a > reasonable extension. > > But of course there is not only the return address issue, > there is also the > whole problem of "stack variables." COBOL does not have the > easy distinction > of static or not that some languages have. > > Charles
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