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  3. April 2003

RE: Free-format RPG

Donald R. Fisher, III wrote:
> I am curious about the choice of the semi-colons to end a statement.  Most,
if not all, languages use a period to end sentences.  Was this delimiter
considered to much like COBOL for RPG?  Is the semi-colon considered more
visible and thus easier to read?  I could buy the latter as missing those
periods in COBOL cost me many times.

One reason would be that a period is used as a qualifier for data structures.

Seth Shields
Julius Blum, Inc.

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