RE: Coding in Column 1

Sorry about that. RDi 9.5 has support for this, although the actual RPG compiler does not yet.

Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Application Development, Service Delivery Platform

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Subject: Re: Coding in Column 1

9.5?



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From: "Vernon Hamberg" <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 3:31:11 PM
Subject: Re: Coding in Column 1

Kurt

This was a question of mine when I first looked at 9.5 - we use this approach, and it's been around for decades.

Fortunately, there's no need to change the old stuff - this new format is for new code only.

So if we use the 1+ way of coding, we'll need new ways (maybe old in other languages) to indicate change, if we do it in the code. Other languages take advantage of diffs between iterations, so no need for marking in code itself.

To mark changes in CL has required some kind of START and END comments with a change ID, perhaps.

A comment could be placed to the right for this kind of thing.

Other ideas? I know I don't have the market covered here.

Cheers
Vern

On 9/18/2015 2:24 PM, Kurt Anderson wrote:

I was curious what the community thinks about getting rid of the 'mod mark' concept (putting a ticket/request/whatever # in columns 1-5)? In my 15+ years of RPG, every shop I've been at has marked changed code with some kind of value in columns 1-5. But soon we'll have the ability to 'unreserve' columns 1-7 and start coding in column 1 like most (all?) other languages.

I'm meeting resistance on our team about taking advantage of those columns in that way (especially with the ability to code past column 80). Will any of your teams be foregoing this mod-mark concept and embrace coding starting in column 1?

Kurt Anderson
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