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

<humour>
We could even format our source code to make shapes and designs. Gee, a
whole program in the shape of a smiley face!
<endhumour>

Rob Berendt

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So, taking it to the extreme, could we do this.... Not that I would...  But
I have seen worse back when I debugged C code.

For I = 0 to num; x = y(i); EndFor;

Since the compiler knows the ';' is the end of that statement, I would
assume we could place all our code on one line, with the only limitation,
being the record length of our source file.

tim


   -----Original Message-----
   From:   Steve Brazzell [SMTP:steve@brazzell.com]
   Sent:   Thursday, November 02, 2000 2:53 AM
   To:     RPG400-L@midrange.com
   Subject:        RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?

   John,

   The purpose of the semi-colon is to indicate the logical end of a
   program
   statement.  You mis-quote George Farr's example slightly.  Here is what
   you
   "quote":

   >         For i = 0 to num;
   >              x = y(i);
   >         EndFor;

   Here is an exact quote:

   His example points out, implicitly, why the semi-colon is needed.  There
   are
   multi-line statements that would be ambiguous without the explicit
   end-of-statement notation.

   As for the GOTO, I say be gone with it!  I wish it had never been part
   of
   the language to begin with.

   Just my 2 cents...

   Steve

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