Curt Brimacomb writes

I just had a very bizarre Cobol error.

I was redoing paragraph names in the source code.  I accidentally lost a
space after the word "perform" on one line and ended up with something like
this:

       perform1020-put-record.
       perform 1220-lock-next-set.
       move "update" to status.

 1000-next-para.

the program complied with no errors, but would not run right.  I added the
one space back into the "bad" perform line.  It still compiled with no
errors, but now does run correctly.

Why did it compile with the missing space?
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Because perform1020-put-record. is a perfectly valid paragraph name.
Paragraph names do not have to start in the "A" area (cols 8-12).  That is
only a legibility convention.

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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