Re: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

Hi Hans!

> The efforts to "stuff the ballot box" have been noted, and hopefully
> that won't negatively influence the prioritization of future work.

Somehow this is funny. There is a feature request database, people are
allowed to vote, and when one advertises this (cool!) feature and
people do actually vote (and i expect the members of the mailing lists
to be smart enough to know whether they want to vote for this or for
other features) and then there's this response...

Actually, i didn't feel to do a bad thing in advertising FRED and my
feature request. Have i been a bad boy? Maybe this sounds silly, but
that's the way i feel, thanks for your patience, please make me a
little bit smarter! Maybe it has something to do with local customs
and conventions, we have some weird things here in austria, too! :-)

> Anyways, we're unlikely to change the situation for SEU.

Clear; i don't think anyone will bet a cent on receiving anything for
5250 development; and as far as i remember, i didn't wanted anything
for SEU.

> But notes have been flying around internally here discussing the
> situation, and perhaps maybe something might be done in WDSC.

Then FRED has done a good job.

> In the meantime, remember that the RPG program verifier already does
> a (more) complete check of the RPG source code.

Yep, but not @home, where i imported an exported iSeries project from
the workstation at work.

And i don't like pressing "verify" on every line. What gets me most is
matching the ' and the (). When i get one one the fingers when i want
to leave the line, it's OK, i still know what i initially wanted to
express. Several lines later this knowledge more or less slowly
vanishes.

> Also note that the syntax checker can't do much more of a check than
> the error messages that get listed embedded within the source in the
> compile listing.

I expect the free form syntax checker to be able to do the same as the
fixed form syntax checker. There hasn't been so many changes, it's
still the same language.

IMHO, the fixed form syntax checker has a harder task than the free
form syntax checker, because the fixed one hasn't to be told when a
statement ends via the semicolon.

> Cheers! Hans

Cheers! is said when one lifts a glass with a liquid in it, or? Then a
(virtual) Cheers! to you, too, Hans!

I'm happy that you are around, although your mails aren't making me
happy all the time, but whose do? :-)

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards

Anton Gombkötö
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