Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, Version 4.1, Programming Guide


Arithmetic expressions in nonarithmetic statements

Arithmetic expressions can appear in contexts other than arithmetic statements. For example, you can use an arithmetic expression with the IF or EVALUATE statement.

In such statements, the rules for intermediate results with fixed-point data and for intermediate results with floating-point data apply, with the following changes:

related references  
Terminology used for intermediate results  
Fixed-point data and intermediate results  
Floating-point data and intermediate results  
IF statement (Enterprise COBOL Language Reference)  
EVALUATE statement (Enterprise COBOL Language Reference)  
Conditional expressions (Enterprise COBOL Language Reference)


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