RE: Free Form RPG Opinions Wanted

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Tom Liotta
>
> Are you saying you "HAVE" to suffer another expense to use /free?
> What expense?

Actually, as it turns out, Jon says there's an automatic conversion option
in CODE/400 (and hopefully that will get moved to the LPEX editor in WDSC).
The additional cost was from the statement that I should just use Linoma's
tool.


> All this time I've been thinking that all I had to do was wrap in
> /free<>/endfree and I could use new features. That actually seems
> much easier than converting cycle-based file processing to
> full-procedural or than removing user-defined display formats to
> make way for DDS WINDOW() support or...

True, you CAN use the /free container.  It gets really ugly, but you can use
it.

So, in the long run, all my arguments are really about whether it's okay to
make people use /free and /end-free to mix new BIFs with old MOVE
instructions.  I've made my point, and I'm unlikely to do anybody any good
continuing on, so I'll just leave it here.

Joe