Re: Free format H, F, D and P specs

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[John Yeung wrote:]
So if IBM can do braces in C on the i, why (as a technical issue,
setting aside whether it's a good idea) couldn't they do braces in
RPG?

I didn't realise that the RPG compiler shares the lexer, parser and
tokeniser with the C compiler.

I'm surprised at this style of response from you, Buck. Be that as it
may: It doesn't matter if there are *no* shared components between
the RPG compiler and the C compiler. The issue of being able to
recognize braces is just not that hard. (Jon Paris, if pressed, could
write a preprocessor.)

The fact is, if EBCDIC can be "worked around" with C and C++, there is
no technical reason they couldn't be worked around with RPG.

Technically, the US can send men to the moon and bring them back again.
All it takes is demand, money, people and time.
--buck

I didn't realize it was just as easy to add braces to RPG as it is to
send men to the moon and bring them back again.

John