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  • Subject: RE: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?
  • From: "Hockemeyer, Gene" <HockemG@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 07:07:16 -0600

What will you do .. if your statement exceeds the line length and you have
no means of telling the compiler or yourself or others following you down
the path you build .. where the statement ends!  



-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dow [mailto:pcdow@MailAndNews.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 9:19 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?


Hi Jim,

I wouldn't mind

 a = 0;  b = 0;  c = 0;

but I really don't like

    if a = b;
      eval y = x;
    endif;

It's kind of interesting. I haven't heard anyone mention COBOL in this
discussion...

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax

From: "Jim Langston" <jimlangston@conexfreight.com>
> I have used languages that do not require an end of statement terminator,
such
> as QuickBasic, dBase and Clipper
>
> I have used languages that do require an end of statement terminator, such
as
> C, Pascal and Perl
>
> I did not like having to use an underscore in QuickBasic and Clipper to
continue a line. _
>
> I did not mind using a semicolon in C and Pascal to terminate a line;
>
> I hate having to use a C in RPG on every line, makes for ugly code.
>
> The fact is, the semi colon is not superficious.
>
> How would you code this without being able to use a semi colon?
>
> a = 0;  b = 0;  c = 0;
>
> Without the statement terminator, I now have a limit, one statement per
line.
>
> a = 0
> b = 0
> c = 0


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