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  3. February 2003

Re: /FREE RPG compiler errors

Dan,

Absolutely, that's the point of free-format RPG and it does just that.

I'm puzzled by your thought that free-format will make it possible to
write horrendous code. Even more puzzled by the "more so than
fixed-format RPG" notion. 

Gary Guthrie
Senior Technical Editor, iSeries NEWS


Dan wrote:
>  isn't the whole point
> of /free to make it easier for the programmer to write understandable code?  
>I understand that
> /free will also make it possible to write horrendous code, more so than 
>non-/free RPG.  But that's
> where standards come in.  Yes? No?

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