Re: Archaic 80-column format (was coding guidelines)

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From: Bill Klein
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:17

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Just as a (possible) aside.

The 2002 ANSI/ISO COBOL Standard *requires* a compiler to be able to accept
"variable" length source lines UP TO "255 Characters".  They are VERY
specific that this is "characters" and NOT "bytes", i.e. if you have a
"mixture" of Unicode, EBCDIC, and DBCS on a single line of COBOL source code
(with control characters in-between to indicate shift-out/-in), then the
compiler must accept 255  CHARACTERS of "data" - not control characters and
each multi-byte character counts as ONE character.

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Now ask me if I think this was a "good idea" <G>

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