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  • Subject: Re: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?
  • From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 06:59:37 -0500
  • Organization: Dilgard Frozen Foods

boldt@ca.ibm.com wrote:
 
> I will offer one point I don't think I've made before:  The
> free-form calc spec was intended for NEW programs or modules.
> I wouldn't recommend adding free-form code into existing
> programs unless you're adding large blocks of new code.

But you can go in and out of free format mode as often as you like,
right?

And I guarantee _someone_ will write a conversion utility to change
fixed format into free format.  And no, I won't be the one. <g>

-- 
-Jeff
The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily 
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
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