Re: Using RDP 8.0 i Projects

Only in the same sense that Henry Ford offered the model T in any color you
wanted- as long as you wanted black.

Sure the source line can be longer than 80 characters, but the RPG compiler
ignores everything past column 80 (at least it does at v5r4), throwing a
level 20 error. Need to break the statement into two or more lines to get it
to compile correctly, which is a pain when you start using meaningful names
for qualified data structures and procedures.

RSE "enforces" the limitation, too.


On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:48 AM, John Callahan <jjcllhn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The more I develop in non-IBM i environments, the more frustrated I

become

with the traditional IBM i source tools and dealing with limited fixed
length source physical files when I return. I haven't dropped an 80

column

punch card deck in over 30 years. At what point will IBM allow us to feed
the RPG compiler something more than 69 characters per line from a source
file?

How about 2002?

Store your source in the IFS and you can have lines as long as you want.

Charles
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