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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 21, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>PERFORM VARYING for loop

We propose the implementation of a compilation directive allowing to do iterations.

These iterations could involve the manipulation of compilation variables and source text which would then be replicated on each iteration of the loop.
Corrollary: you also need a directive to generate a line of source text.

This request complements and justifies our other requests 146151 and 146152.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 20, 2020

    This is also not part of the COBOL Standard and is not inline with our long term roadmap. As a result, we will be rejecting this RFE.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 5, 2020

    I propose to make the VARYING and UNTIL clause independent of the >>PERFORM directive :

    For "inline" >>PERFORM directive :

    >>PERFORM
    >>UNTIL condition
    source text
    >>END-PERFORM

    >>PERFORM
    >>VARYING compilation-var FROM start BY increment
    >>UNTIL condition
    source text
    >>END-PERFORM

    For "outline" >>PERFORM directive

    >>PROC myproc
    source text
    >>END-PROC

    >>PERFORM myproc

    >>PERFORM myproc
    >>UNTIL condition

    >>PERFORM myproc
    >>VARYING compilation-var FROM start BY increment
    >>UNTIL condition

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