Re: J4 - presentation/discussion on "Future of the COBOL Standard"

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:28:40 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:50:02 GMT, "William M. Klein"
><wmklein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> The average Cobol programmer has avoided Occurs Depending On for 22
years.
>>>
>>
>>As usual, Robert's claim for what the "average COBOL ****gramme" does or
doesn't 
>>do is based on his rigourously applied research method, i.e. "it seems
to me - 
>>that of those programs and programmers that I have seen, that ..."
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>I'll have to say that I don't think I've ever Occurs Depending On used
>much for internal tables wherever I've worked (at least in the last
>couple of decades) - and its usage in data files has been largely
>superseded, first with header and detail records, and later with
>database access.
>
>But that's only my experience, I can't speak for the industry.
I believe that OCCURS DEPENDING ON is useful for tables that can have
a variable number of entries and are in sequence for searching using
SEARCH ALL.

Clark Morris