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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Decimal Floating types
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Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message news:<3D652A33.B5FE93B9@adaworks.com>...

> Actually,  the TO is not illegal, according to the syntax 
> chart in my closest-to-hand COBOL book.

Yes, but it is not used in practice, at least in my
experience, and I prefer to use typical style when I
quote COBOL (or any other language) :-)