RE: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

| -----Original Message-----
| From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Hans Boldt
| Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:28 AM

| Why the current unacceptable situation? (Yes, most people here agree
| it is unacceptable.) Currently, WDSC uses the same RPG syntax
| checker as used by SEU.

Interesting.

| The syntax checker doesn't check /FREE
| statements simply due to the intractibility of locating the
| beginning of a /FREE statement from any arbitrary point in the
| source. The alternative of going back to the previous /FREE
| directive also has its problems, and the ultimate fall-back of
| syntax checking all calcs is considered to be unacceptable for
| performance reasons.

I never got an answer to previous question I posted, but based on one-a your
other replies, I assume the "performance reasons" are that you've fixated on
the concept of a single-pass compiler.  (Could be wrong, of course.)

Well, if you consider the performance of the person what ACTUALLY USES the
editor (and you acknowledge that the current situation IS unacceptable) then
none-syntax-checking is NOT an option.  Apparently it is being considered as
a perfectly valid option, currently, for some reason.


| Anyways, we're unlikely to change the situation for SEU.

No doubt...

And given your first statement, you'll probably hafta go to a li'l extra
work to see that SEU does NOT get any enhancements.

Why's that again...??