I seem to remember that most of the perceived weaknesses in COBOL were
addressed a long time ago.
But some old tales just won't die. Back when JSP meant Jackson Structured,
I remember being told that PL/I supported selection directly with 'SELECT',
while in COBOL people were using ALTER with GOTO
On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 11:30:24 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
>...
>while in COBOL people were using ALTER with GOTO (oof!).
>
???
But didn't they need a CASE/SELECT to choose which ALTER?
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Are the registers at SDWASR00 the same as the registers pointed to by
SDWARBAD when SDWARBAD is around I have noticed most of the time they are
Your words of "most of the time" indicate that you have observed that they are
not always.
Your observation is correct. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Re
In one of the appends there was talk about an SRB. So which is it? SRB or task?
Whether valid or not, from one work unit (SRB or task) you cannot use another
work unit's DU-AL ALET. Only PASN-AL ALETs and common area data space (CADS)
ALETs can be used from multiple work units.
If looking aroun
I was taught long ago that "call by value" meant simply that whatever the
target routine did to a parameter was not reflected back to the caller's
argument. There are multiple possible implementations. One is to make a copy
and pass the argument by reference to the copy. Another is to pass the a
On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 13:34:02 +, Peter Relson wrote:
>... One is to make a copy and pass the argument by reference to the copy.
> Another is to pass the actual value (somewhere, somehow).
>
??? "somehow". The mechanism of passing an "actual value" distinct
from a copy is left as an exercis
This is been very interesting, but no one has mentioned billions and trillions.
When I was a young, I learned that the UK million was the same as US, but
billion was a million millions (not just a thousand million) and a trillion was
a million billions and so on. i guess It makes a difference
Thanks
That’s what I thought
In order for my recovery to do a retry
My register have to be in tact
R3 is the base for all my csects
4 bytes off that is my eyecatcher as I branch round that comparing R3 + 4 for
the eyecatcher is how I determine that
I start SDWAGR then I try SDWASR
Then I
Actually it’s a task
The dataspace is owned by another address
Space
I’m thing of writting a customized TESTAUTH subcommand to display it im begging
to realize I’ll have to pass the stoken to do it
Thanks
> On Apr 1, 2023, at 8:43 AM, Peter Relson wrote:
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> In one of the appends there
Fair point. When I was at school we used "billion" as long scale 10^12, but
by the time I worked for Nasty Wetmonster Bank it was short scale.
I tend to just say "thousand million" :-)
Roops
On Sun, 2 Apr 2023, 00:34 Gary Weinhold, wrote:
> This is been very interesting, but no one has mention
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