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From: harrison@necssd.NEC.COM (Mark Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Hyphen as identifier characters
Summary: hyphens are legal in COBOL ids
Message-ID: <231@necssd.NEC.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 90 14:07:30 GMT
References: <48a55876.12c9a@digital.sps.mot.com> <776@enea.se> <448@fwi.uva.nl> <810@enea.se>
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In article <810@enea.se>, sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:

> Incidently, if I'm not totally confused, the comment 
>    subtract foo-bar from n
> is perfectly correct Cobol, including the hyphen.

as is 
     compute n = n - foo-bar.
       or
     compute n = n + -foo-bar.

Cobol requires spaces around arithmetic operators.