From: LR <lruss@superlink.net>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7mgdod$1p3v$1@earth.superlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FEtt7E.K2s@research.att.com
Hi,
According to the draft standard (no, no, the COBOL one) section
14.10.25.3 (see http://people.ne.mediaone.net/pennyjs/home.htm) the
value of Y will be 21 and the value of X is implied to be 7.
But it's been about 15 years since I used COBOL. So am I right? Was
using the standard to find an answer cheating?
I guess that I'm assuming that both X and Y are something like PIC 99.
And not PIC 9. Maybe your question didn't have enough context? I guess
that it's possible that Y might be 1.
Can I ask about my report writer problems now? ;)
LR.
Andrew Koenig wrote:
>
> In article <37928f6b.332959901@news.bctel.ca>,
> Roedy Green <roedy@mindprod.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:24:39 GMT, ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
> > wrote:
>
> > >> > MULTIPLY X BY Y.
>
> > I asked a COBOL programmer. He said that syntax is never used in
> > practice.
>
> In other words, he doesn't know what it does, either :-)
> --
> Andrew Koenig, ark@research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-08 0:00 Partners Wanted Bahram Mirkalami
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Kim N�rby Andersen
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Jim
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Sunil Rao
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Edward Hill
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Scott McMahan
1999-07-13 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Steve Horne
1999-07-14 0:00 ` Michael F. Yoder
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Warner Bruns
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Roedy Green
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` LR [this message]
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Richard Heathfield
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Dale King
1999-07-13 0:00 ` Lawrence Kirby
[not found] ` <01beca1a$86d1a800$0e01a8c0@eton.powernet.co.uk>
1999-07-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-07-09 0:00 ` firewind
1999-07-10 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-07-10 0:00 ` Kenny A. Chaffin
1999-07-09 0:00 ` Mark
1999-07-12 0:00 ` Bahram Mirkalami
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