RW on Working-Storage (was: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"

> "Robert" <no@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:01:25 +1300, "Pete Dashwood" 
>> <dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
>>
<snip>
> The standard says working-storage is allocated
> statically.
>

Robert,
   Can you point me to where in "the Standard" ('85 or '02) that it says
this? 
(Certainly it is NOT true in the '02 Standard where you specifically can
use the 
ALLOCATE/FREE statements to dynamically get storage in Working-Storage
Section.) 
To the best of my knowledge, no previous ANSI/ISO Standard ever said this 
either.  In fact, as I recall, when, where, and how storage was allocated
by 
some vendors differed, for example, for 01-levels and 77-levels.

-- 
Bill Klein
 wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com