RE: /free /end-free

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I can make one suggestion please...
When I write a long line I get an error, comment field not allowed
for free-format expressions, so I have to break my line down to get
it out of the comment field.

How difficult would it be to just have the comment field included
in the source line since we can't use it for comments anyway?  That
way I could code a longer line (I'm used to 80 column lines).

Regards,

Jim Langston

-----Original Message-----
From: boldt@ca.ibm.com [mailto:boldt@ca.ibm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 5:33 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: /free /end-free

<SNIP>

Thanks for the kudos!  It's much appreciated.

I'd just like to say we're not leaving well enough alone.  In our next
release, we'll probably have a couple of enhancements that take
advantage of the new calc-spec format.  In fact, these enhancements
won't even work on the old-style calc-spec, since the old 14 character
factors just aren't big enough.  (Hint:  You might find these
particular enhancements useful if you do any I/O in your programs.)

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com