Re: Pronouns in programming language?

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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