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

Hi Dean,

Will you help my clients pay me to rewrite programs that have GOTO's<G>? I'm
talking about old code that helps run hospitals, needs what should be a
minor tweak, a 5-minute change, but because I have to rewrite the logic to
not use GOTO's it could end up taking hours or even days.

Actually, I'm unclear on a lot of things that have been discussed lately:

- Can we mix CF-specs with C-specs?
- Are GOTO's being eliminated from the fixed-format C-spec?
- If a post V4R5 file is created with SQL with no special features, will I
be able to specify it on an F-spec and have it successfully open?
- If we're forced to use semicolons, just how ubiquitous do they have to be
to make the compiler writer's life easier?
- Are multiple statements going to be allowed on one line?
- Will SQL be integrated better with RPG?

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



From: <DAsmussen@aol.com>

> I'll reissue a challenge that I first made nearly five years ago during
the
> early GOTO wars on MIDRANGE-L -- before there even _WAS_ an RPG400-L.
Show
> me ONE SINGLE piece of _USEFUL_ business application code that absolutely
> requires a GOTO, and I'll recant my anti-GOTO stance.  Otherwise, quit
> whining about GOTO and upgrade your code to eliminate it.


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