RE: Free Fromat Standards

Scott,

And those are important standards, as little as they are...
I've seen many RPG IV /FREE stuff all nicely right-aligned. Makes it
somewhat difficult to read, or rather, it looses a lot of the advantage of
free format by making the code look like the traditional fixed format. That
is you can't easily identify the indentation (nesting levels) of the IF/DOW,
etc. unless you index some amount of space. Whether that's 2, 3, or 5
positions doesn't really matter, as long as you do it.


Bob Cozzi
Cozzi Consulting
www.rpgiv.com


-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:06 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Free Fromat Standards

>
> Wondered if anyone has anything of a simlar nature they could share, or
any
> points they have noticed that I shoudl add in.
>

When we switched to free-format we made very few changes to our standards.

Basically, aside from the syntax changes required from the language,
we decided:

-- The code should be indented 3 spaces or more from the position of
    the /free tag.

-- Each new level (such as those created by if/endif do/enddo, etc)
    should be indented 3 or more spaces.

Aside from that, we use the exact same standards that we used in
fixed-format.  The transition from fixed format to free format is really
not that big of a change.  You just have more space for your statements
now.

Good Luck

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