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

Hi John,

Aren't we already writing multi-line statements with no continuation
character and no termination character?

    c            eval    a =
    c                        %substr(c:1:5) +
    c                        %substr(d:5:10)

Note that the + sign is not a continuation character, it's a concatentation
character.

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


From: "John Taylor" <john.taylor@telusplanet.net>
> In fact, Hans has already mentioned (on the AS400Network forum) that the
> original design did not include an end-of-line terminator. Apparently, it
> was added to eliminate the need for a continuation character on multiple
> line statements. To me, that seems nuts! Surely, we're all writing MANY
more
> single line statements than multiple ones. Wouldn't this be like reversing
> the behaviour of the shift key so that we'd have to hold it down in order
to
> type lower case letters?


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