[Info-vax] COBOL example $MGBLSC

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-09-09 kl. 16:02, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 9/9/2023 9:29 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> 
>> "Throughout this manual, and except where specific rules apply, the
>> hyphen (-) and the underline (_) are treated as the same character
>> in a user-defined word."
> 
> I guess that could be compared to "case insensitive", but while I consider 
> case sensitivity to be less than reasonable, I find the above to be really 
> stupid. Sure makes searching for specific words in a program complex.
> 
> Got to understand Bill's objection to such.
> 

Stupid or not, it was not known to Bill and created that
wrong comment of being two differnt symbols. I just showed
that they are probably handled as the same symbol.

That doesn't mean that I disagree with you... :-)