FRONT_2.2 Obsolete Language Elements
Obsolete language elements are COBOL 85 Standard language elements that will be deleted from the next revision of the Standard. (This does not imply that these elements will be eliminated from a future release of an IBM COBOL compiler.)
The language elements that will be deleted from the next revision of the COBOL 85 Standard are:
- ALTER statement
- AUTHOR paragraph
- Comment entry
- DATA RECORDS clause
- DATE-COMPILED paragraph
- DATE-WRITTEN paragraph
- DEBUG-ITEM special register
- Debugging sections
- ENTER statement
- GO TO without a specified procedure name
- INSTALLATION paragraph
- LABEL RECORDS clause
- MEMORY SIZE clause
- MULTIPLE FILE TAPE clause
- REVERSED phrase
- SECURITY paragraph
- SEGMENT-LIMIT
- SEGMENTATION
- STOP statement
- USE FOR DEBUGGING declarative
- VALUE OF clause
- The figurative constant ALL literal, when associated with a numeric or numeric-edited item and with a length greater than one
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