RE: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<joe>
By using my simple, straightforward suggestion of allowing every supported
free-form opcode to have an fixed format extender such as (X) that treats
extended factor 2 as the same syntax as free-form, then you can have a
campaign to slowly wean everyone off of fixed and onto free.  They can learn
to take advantage of the new BIFs, while at the same time figuring out how
to deal with all the old MOVE instructions.  And once everything is
converted, then a single pass to move to free format and you're done!  This
is a much smoother transition than what you've currently got.
</joe>


Unless I am missing something, the transition isn't hard at all.  If you
have a seasoned RPG IV V4Rx programmer wanting to move to V5Rx, I don't
think it will take them more than a few hours to get up to speed on some of
it.  There are great resources all over the place to get a good
understanding of new RPG features.  We discussed how to do the MOVE opcode
in /free to great length here (I am sure you remember that one Joe:-).
People just need to get a feel for how to use resources, like most everyone
on this list has done; then transitions are near painless.

Aaron Bartell