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- From: ah739@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Leslie J. Somos)
- Subject: Re: OO Cobol (?!)
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 14:51:55 GMT
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- In a previous article, navon@cs.unc.edu (Jaime Navon) says:
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- >> Hi,
- >> Does anybody know if any OO Cobol product has been released yet?
- >> Has it been reviewed somewhere in trade publications?
- >> I am also looking for suggestions/comments on how to influence
- >> COBOL programmers to embrace OO programming.
- >
- >
- >
- >As OO C is called C++, the OO Cobol should be called "add 1 to Cobol" :-)
- >
- >
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- Actually, the ++ operator means to add to the variable, whatever is the
- natural size for it. That is, for a character variable, it adds 1. For
- pointers, which take up 4 bytes, it adds 4.
- Some people might say "add _0_ to COBOL".
- Others will substitute a different value for the natural size of 'COBOL'.
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- --
- Leslie J. Somos ah739@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu
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