Using OP
IF TVOLL (IND1) NOT = HIGH-VALUE
AND SMOD (IND1) = 'B' OR 'R'
I would do
IF TVOLL (IND1) NOT = HIGH-VALUE
IF SMOD (IND1) = 'B' OR 'R'
Do the stuff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On
> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2020 1:12 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: COBOL Question
>
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 19:56:06 +0000, Gibney, Dave wrote:
>
> >Also, it's often better to nest than to make compound conditions.
> >
> Do you mean not expanding the Distributive Law? E.g. you prefer:
> A and ( B or C )
> to:
> A and B or A and C?
>
> Do we need to talk about short-circuit evaluation?
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Charles Mills
> >> Sent: Friday, June 05, 2020 12:54 PM
> >>
> >> I long ago decided never to bother looking up or thinking about
> >> operator precedence. If I am not immediately certain straight out of
> >> the box then I use parentheses.
> >>
> Me, too. And I've been thwarted by a BASIC interpreter (Data General) and
> a Pascal compiler (Lightspeed) which incrementally compiled to internal
> pseudo-code (RPN?) and decompiled for listing (Infix) with bare minimum
> parentheses. And frustrated my attempts to align decimal points vertically.
>
> -- gil
>
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