RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?

I personally would prefer the line terminator to go away; but if it gets us
free
format "quicker" because of the ease of writing the compiler, then I can
live with that.
As for GOTO, I am glad also to see it fall by the way side, some opinions
have been
that it should stay - IMHO it is an ancient technique whose time has come
and gone,
old code should not be simply ran though a conversion tool, the systems
should be
looked at as a whole and coded with OOP in your mindset, just leave old code
as is,
and use the new tools as you can.  I have been in shops where they are still
using S/34 code (raw and ugly RPGII)- the rule being, " if it isn't broke,
why fix it"

Free format, "true" ILE, and OOP is a whole new mindset for us "old-timers",
and we should
embrace the challenge to change and grow, to let go of indicators, to
structure not only
our code, but our whole systems to be re-usable, reliable, and robust.


just my two cents to the pot...


Mark A. Manske
[mailto:mmanske@minter-weisman.com]
Sr. Project Lead
Minter-Weisman




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of John Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:01 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?

<snip>

If any of you have an opinion with respect to either of these limitations, I
urge you to speak up now. Once released, the chances of us getting this
changed will be slim for the GOTO, and absolutely NONE for the statement
terminator.

Ideally, you can participate in the feedback forum at www.as400network.com
to share your opinions. If you can't do that, then please share them on this
list; since we know that Hans & Barbara monitor it.


Regards,

John Taylor
Canada

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