== Why is this an issue?

A data item reference should contain the required qualifiers so that, based on its location and the priority rules, it matches only one data item definition.


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=== on 25 Aug 2014, 20:34:13 Ann Campbell wrote:
\[~pierre-yves.nicolas] what happens when data items aren't fully specified?

=== on 16 Sep 2014, 14:11:10 Pierre-Yves Nicolas wrote:
I tried to compile a COBOL program containing an ambiguous reference with 3 different COBOL compilers.

With the default settings, all 3 compilers reported an error.

That makes this rule useless.

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