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Status Not under consideration
Workspace COBOL Compilers
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 10, 2020

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Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Multi >>WHEN for >>EVALUATE directive

The >>WHEN conditions of the >>EVALUATE directive should behave like the WHEN conditions of the EVALUATE instruction: when several conditions follow one another, without any intermediate text, they should be implicitly linked by an OR.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 5, 2020

    The request is precisely to make the >>evaluate directive behave like the evaluate instruction.
    The ISO standard is not very precise on this point, and even so, there are already implementations in the IBM compiler which do not follow the ISO standard (see the EXIT instruction).
    Without this change, the use of the >>evaluate directive is made complicated (or even unusable) due to the limitation to 1 line to express the condition of each >>when

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 2, 2020

    Based on the Standard, the >>WHEN conditions of the >>EVALUATE directive is actually different than the WHEN conditions of the EVALUATE instruction. The RFE is not part of the Standard and as a result is being rejected.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 20, 2020

    Hi Rune

    Statement Evaluate / When run this way.
    But directive >>Evaluate / >>When does not.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 12, 2020

    Hi Dennis,

    I do not understand this request.
    COBOL should allready be working like this.
    I did a unit test, with the two different evaluate structures, and they both act in the same way.

    Could you clarify the issue, as I am uncertain of the problem.
    Thanks

    Regards,
    Rune

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 10, 2020

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  • Guest
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    |     Oct 10, 2020

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