RE: Free Format Procedures

From: Michael Ryan

Maybe there's a cool way and I just don't know, so I thought I would
ask. What's the technique for using /Free and /End-Free with free
format in procedures? Like this?

/End-Free
P doProcess B

D doProcess PI

/Free
<free format code>
/End-Free
P doProcess E

Or is there a better way? Thanks!

Nope, that's all you can do. Today, /free only includes C-specs; the P- and
D- specs must be fixed format, and since every procedure needs P- and D-
specs, that means you have a lot of /free and /end-free, especially if you
write lots of little routines.

One shortcut I use (and this is entirely a style thing; some people won't
like it because it's not "self-documenting" enough) is that the procedure
interface (D-spec type PI) and the procedure end (P-spec type E) don't need
to have the procedure name repeated.

/End-Free
P doProcess B

D PI

/Free
<free format code>
/End-Free
P E

Thus I only have the procedure name on two lines: the prototype and the
procedure begin. But that's just me.

Joe