Re: Upper/lower case in COBOL-source

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: geir.kildal@entragroup.com <geir.kildal@entragroup.com>
To: COBOL400-L@midrange.com <COBOL400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:10 AM
Subject: Upper/lower case in COBOL-source


>Hello again.
>
>On my way into the world of ILE, I have noticed that the default setting
>for 'Uppercase only' has changed from 'Y' to 'N' when I edit an
>ILE-program.  Does this mean that lower-case characters are fully accepted
>in the COBOL source-file?
>

Yes, but the language itself is NOT case sensitive. ie. ThiSVar is the same
as thisvar is the same as THISVAR, etc. Just like RPG.

But the literals always were and always will be case sensitive. Hence the
NOMONOPRC which deals specifically with procedure names, which must be a
literal or pointer.

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"America is the land that fought for freedom and then
  began passing laws to get rid of it."

     - Alfred E. Neuman



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