Matt writes:

[snip]
>The 0 or ZERO dilemma was an observational statement, not a guess, from a
>problem that thrust up it's rather unwelcome existence back around 1992 or
>so with the compiler on MPE/XL, leading to a preference for the ZERO syntax.

I wasn't 'there' in the shop you are referencing, but I can say that since 1979
 with > 4 million lines of HP COBOL code I have never seen that behavior. I have
 seen other bugs, some pretty gnarly. Since a compiler is a program written by
 people who aren't perfect it is guaranteed to have some, just like all the code
 I have written over the years :-)

Also, '<>' is an HP COBOL extension that won't compile on all other
COBOL compilers, but that would be caught by the compiler in question...

duane

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