RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?

["Hatzenbeler, Tim" <thatzenbeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?

So, taking it to the extreme, could we do this.... Not that I would...  But I have seen worse back when I debugged C code.

For I = 0 to num; x = y(i); EndFor;

Since the compiler knows the ';' is the end of that statement, I would assume we could place all our code on one line, with the only limitation, being the record length of our source file.

tim

-----Original Message-----
From:   Steve Brazzell [SMTP:steve@brazzell.com]
Sent:   Thursday, November 02, 2000 2:53 AM
To:     RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject:        RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?

John,

The purpose of the semi-colon is to indicate the logical end of a program
statement.  You mis-quote George Farr's example slightly.  Here is what you
"quote":

>         For i = 0 to num;
>              x = y(i);
>         EndFor;

Here is an exact quote:

His example points out, implicitly, why the semi-colon is needed.  There are
multi-line statements that would be ambiguous without the explicit
end-of-statement notation.

As for the GOTO, I say be gone with it!  I wish it had never been part of
the language to begin with.

Just my 2 cents...

Steve

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