You, as a person, are expecting it to follow indentation.
The computer is following the numbers as typed, regardless of indentation.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 2:59 PM, John McKown
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> Confirmed.  It seems to treat the out-of-sequence level number as just the
>> next logical level down (i.e., treats level 12 just like level 15 after the
>> preceding level 10). For this example code:
>>
>>
> Thanks for testing that. I put in my "fix", but I did it by putting in the
> "missing" level as a FILLER in what I _hoped_ was the proper place in the
> code. That got it to compile in GNU COBOL. But the results of a "group
> move" would not be equivalent, as best as I know of such things. I really
> wonder if this is what IBM intended? I hope Mr. Ross of the COBOL
> persuasion at IBM sees this thread and comments on it. Personally, I prefer
> the GNU result. It just looks wrong to me.
>
>
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