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

God I hate this list server sometimes! I haven't received the message that
claimed I've misquoted George.

If that's the case, then I apologize for it. I did a cut/paste to get the
code across and, since it was going from HTML to text, the result wasn't
exactly presentable. I tried to re-indent the code, and I pulled out some
extraneous error monitor code that wasn't relevent to the point.

If anyone would like to see the EXACT example, you can view it at the
following URL:

http://www.as400network.com/ArtArchiveImages/figure.cfm?Figure=2000/November
/8642-Fig3.htm


Regards,

John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@ttec.com>
To: <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 09:50
Subject: RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?


> At 11/2/00 10:52 AM +0000, you wrote:
> >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":
> >Here is an exact quote:
> >
> >           For i = 0
> >               to num;
> >             x = y(i);
> >           EndFor;
> >
> >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.
>
>   In that case, an explicit line continuation character s/b used.  Adding
> baggage for EVERY statement to accommodate the few exceptions is not a
good
> design.
>
>   -mark
>
>


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