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

I don't like line continuation characters.  I think that explicit line
endings are unambiguous and trivially easy to do.  Here are a few lines I
snagged from some programs that I am working on at the moment that need to
wrap to the next line in some clean way.

fprintf(LogFile,"\nDevice duration %10.6lf, IO Duration %10.6lf, Utilization
= %5.2lf\n", DevDuration, IODuration, Utilization );

if (cache2->NextAvailRow == cache2->MaxSegments) {cache2->NextAvailRow = 0;
// refine this to a least popular or least recently used algorithm

// satellite numbers
fscanf(input, "+ %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i %i
\n",&Record3.NbrOfSats, &Record3.SatArray[0], &Record3.SatArray[1],
&Record3.SatArray[2], &Record3.SatArray[3], &Record3.SatArray[4],
&Record3.SatArray[5], &Record3.SatArray[6], &Record3.SatArray[7],
&Record3.SatArray[8], &Record3.SatArray[9], &Record3.SatArray[10],
&Record3.SatArray[11], &Record3.SatArray[12], &Record3.SatArray[13],
&Record3.SatArray[14], &Record3.SatArray[15], &Record3.SatArray[16]);

I have written production systems in Fortran, Fortran 4, RPG, RPG II, RPG
III, C, COBOL, Assembler (various), PL/I, MI (System/38 and AS/400), and
BASIC.  There were probably others but I forget now - I'm pretty old :)

Richard Jackson
Richard Jackson and Associates Ltd.
IBM Business Partner
mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net
http://www.richardjacksonltd.com
Telephone: 1 (303) 808-8058


-|-----Original Message-----
-|From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
-|Behalf Of John Taylor
-|Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 7:11 PM
-|To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
-|Subject: Re: Is this the Free-Format that we asked for?
-|
-|
-|Richard,
-|
-|Thank you for taking the time to elaborate on your statement.
-|
-|> If the explicit statement terminator is not available, statements either
-|> trickle off the right for a long ways (hard to read, understand, view,
-|etc)
-|> or their meaning is not ambiguous - they may be interpreted in multiple
-|> ways.  Some of the rules needed to make the statement have a definite
-|> meaning may be less desirable than the semicolon.
-|
-|I just don't see any evidence to support this. Have you had an opportunity
-|to use a language that doesn't require an explicit statement
-|terminator? If
-|so, did you really notice any of the aforementioned problems.? I have a
-|number of years of experience using non-terminated languages
-|under my belt,
-|but I haven't run across those issues.
-|
-|
-|Regards,
-|
-|John Taylor
-|Canada
-|
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