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Record Field References

• COBOL:

      field_name OF record_name_1 OF ... OF
          record_name_n
  

• Others (dot notation):

      record_name_1.record_name_2. ...
          .record_name_n.field_name
  

• Fully qualified references must include all record names

• Elliptical references allow leaving out record names as long as the reference is unambiguous

• Pascal and Modula-2 provide a with clause to abbreviate references