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  3. July 2003

Re: No syntax checking in free-form RPG

Joe,

That begs this question. Why can't they use the same parser
routines they use in the compiler? Would that be an
afterthought? 'Course they would be different products,
teams. But it seems like they could save effort that way.

Is it safe to say they are ratcheting down SEU in favor of
the PC-based editors?


| That's correct, multiple line editing is not an issue.
Lots of other SEU
| syntaxes have multiple line editing.  The explanation
given is that
| free-form is too hard to parse.  I'm not sure why
free-form RPG is harder
| than, say, Java or COBOL, but that's the official
position.
|

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