Procedure Division; Specification Of Procedure Division; Declaratives - Control Data Corporation 3300 Reference Manual

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SPECIFiCATiON
OF PROCEDURE
DIVISION
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Statements in the Procedure Division describe the operations to be performed
by the object program. Execution of the object program begins with the first
statement of the Procedure Division, excluding declaratives, and statements
are executed in order of appearance until they are exhausted. The order of
execution can be altered according to rules specified below.
Declaratives define procedures to be executed in addition to the standard error
and label record handling procedures of the input-output control system.
Procedures specified in a declarative are executed automatically under the
input-output control system according to conditions specified in a USE state-
ment. USE is the only declarative statement.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DECLARATIVES.
section-name-1 SECTION.
introductory- sentence -1.
paragraph-name-1.
END DECLARATIVES.
[section-name-2 SECTION.]
paragraph-name-2.
paragraph-name-3.
[section-name-n SECTION.]
paragraph-name-no
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