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[woodelf]

Paul Koning wrote:

>OS/360 Messages and Codes says IKF is a Cobol compiler message.  The
>COBOL manual says (going from memory here -- it's not on Al's site):
>
>      IKF4084-I -- Questionable use of parentheses accepted
>		   with doubts as to meaning
>
>I haven't a clue what kind of code a compiler would generate when it
>spits out a message like that.  My guess is that this is what you get
>if you feed it the source line "(.)(.)" but I haven't actually tried
>that.
>
>  
>
I was thinking something like this ASCII art

>      ._____________________
>      |
>      |   ,-,__,
>      |  { / /__\
>      | { `}'- -/
>      | {_}/\ o/
>      |   __}  {__
>      | /     "   \
>      |/ /| 0}  0} \     
>      / / \`~' `"/\ \
>     { :   }    {  : }
>      \ \  }  . { / /
>      |\ \/      \ /
>      | j{        }t
>      |  {        }
>      |   \      /
>      |    \    V
>      |     `,   \
>      |      {`   }
>      |_____ {'  /_________
>             ;  /
>            ;  /
>           ,  ,
>          (, k
>           \,,,
>.
>
>  
>