Talk:Copybook

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Copybooks may be used in PL/I as well, in fact copybooks seem to be supported in many IBM platform languages. I am not sure we should limit the definition to COBOL.

I agree. That's quite misleading. I've rewritten this extensively to indicate that. T-bonham 10:10, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The other kind of copybook

Copybooks were also a kind of exercise book. An example of good handwriting was printed at the top of the page, which the student had to copy. The expression "to blot ones' copybook" comes from this usage. Totnesmartin 12:43, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

"copy" occurs in HTML? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.242.229.36 (talk) 20:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Java imports

Contrary to what is stated in the main article of this topic, in Java, the import statement does not perform the same function as the COBOL COPY statement or the C include statement.

Rather, the Java import statement merely indicates what Java package name will be used to resolve class references that are incompletely-specified - that is, class names within the same Java source file as the import statement that do not have their package names prefixed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.253.165.30 (talk) 22:11, 4 June 2008 (UTC)