Re: (Non-Standard) ODO's (by William M. Klein wmklein@nospam.netcom.com)

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:19:43 -0500, "SeaSideSam" <SeaSideSam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>bill.  ibm cobol pre-85 allocated the max occurs number at compile time. 

[Sarcasm mode on]

There you go. It's definitive. IBM wrote the Cobol standard, didn't they?

> i read this somewhere 

Now that's what you call a CITATION. "I read this somewhere" 

>and i saw the evidence in an assembler listing that we used to have
access to. 

Further evidence. Only The Elect have access to assembler listings. 

> i believe that ibm cobol 85 did the same.  

A third source.

>i never understood ibm's implementation of this feature.  

Mere mortals gaze in awe.

>and since it didn't do 'dynamic' allocation i never used it. 

Only Satanists and Communists do 'dynamic' allocation, if there even is
such a thing.

> i did some programming on a univac machine and their cobol pre-85
compiler followed ibm's lead.

Of course. All right thinkers follow IBM's lead. It's the holy writ.