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none of the things you mention have anything to do with the difference between fixed and free.
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I would never use such a thing in factor 1, nor would I ever need to. In fact, I can't think of the last time I used anything but a keylist or a reserved word in factor 1.
Though not really due to fixed format but related, some bifs could benefit to a similar relaxing of format, like %editc. It might be nice to have user selected editing via a method like: characterfield = %editc(numericfield:get_user_edit_pref(parm))
the ability to use multiple lines on extended factor 2 negates this advantage. I personally like to separate my extended factor 2 bifs and subproc calls to more than one line:
c eval characterfield = c %editc(numericfield: c get_user_edit_pref(parm))
I'm with Joe on this one. My experience makes /free harder to follow than fixed. I don't have a particular problem with free format languages, but my bread and butter is rpg, and I can write very readable code using it. I just don't see any advantage to switching. Like he said, it's just change for change sake.
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