RE: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

I was recently at a very informative Partner400 conference, however I am
only starting to learn RPG.
Thus the following information may suffer from a "broken telephone" effect.

As I understand, %KDS Key Data Structure will only be supported in /Free.
The same is true for SetLL if you are supplying it with a list of fields as
opposed to a single one.
Also %Fields allows the ability to specifiy which fields are affected by
Update. Only in /Free.

-mark






                                                                                
                                                        
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> From: rob@xxxxxxxxx
>
> But honestly Jerry, there are several new operation codes and
> BIF's coming
> out that will either only work in free format, or are really enhanced in
> free format.

Uh oh.  Where is this documented, Rob?

There is absolutely no good reason, and no defensible rationale, for a BIF
put into free-form to not be included in RPG IV.  The parser already
exists,
and the code generator already exists.  It's not like a BIF in free-form is
somehow different than the same BIF in RPG IV.

As to new opcodes, I'd have to see them, but I'm again of the mind that
anything that can fit into free-form can fit into an RPG IV expression.
The
difference between the two should only be form, not function.  Otherwise,
you're killing off the RPG IV base.

Joe

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