Re: Pronouns in programming language?

"Charles E. Bortle, Jr." <cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com>
6 Mar 2000 00:21:16 -0500

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From: "Charles E. Bortle, Jr." <cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 6 Mar 2000 00:21:16 -0500
Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
References: 00-02-149 00-02-163
Keywords: syntax

Hello,


RKRayhawk <rkrayhawk@aol.com> wrote in message
> The moderator mentioned that
> << Cobol lets you elide comparison operands, something like
> IF FOO-BAR LESS THAN 12 OR GREATER THAN 42 THEN ...
> >>
>
> COBOL also has condition names which in effect allow elision of
> subject field name and relational! The condition name feature includes
> ranges and list of values. You can code something like




COBOL also has the MOVE CORRESPONDING verb to move data
with the same field name between records, which is pronoun-like.
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Charles cbrtjr@ix.netcom.com
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