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  3. April 2003

Re: Free-format RPG


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Hans Boldt wrote:

> > 5.  Everyone hates the semi-colons.  Hans, you gotta lose those.  ;)
>
> No can do. The compiler needs some way to unambiguously delimit
> statements. If we had some other syntax, there'd be people
> complaining about that method too. And supporting different syntaxes
> now is right out of the question.
>


heck, in time they'll just rename it from RPG to PL/I...  and by then
we should have DIM A(9,9,9,9) ....aka TRUE poly dimensional arrays....:)

...still wishing I was back on the beach in Daytona...sigh...

Don in DC

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