Re: Please vote for Syntax check in /FREE!

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob cozzi wrote:

> The only enhancement RPG IV needs to make it more usable today is to allow a
> COMMA to be used as the parameter separator. No single thing causes me more
> delays in development than this one "feature".  I would give up function
> overloading, semi colon at the end of statements in free format, and a bunch
> of other things for this one capability. 
> Oh for the days I could write:
>
>    Callp   GetLibInfo('QGPL',nObjCnt, nLibSize)
> Instead of...
>
>    Callp   GetLibInfo('QGPL':nObjCnt:nLibSize)
>
> Even today, I still enter a COMMA, compile the code, then have to figure out
> what the error is telling me (because it never says COLON missing from
> expression) it says things like "expected token not found" or "right
> parameter missing from expression" and I look at the code (with the COMMAs
> in it) and it looks perfectly fine to me, then I realize, COLOTIS is the
> cause the problem
>  


And Bob, you also know full well that that's not going to change any 
time soon. As you know, you can code "CALLP PROC(12,34);" today. And 
since release to release compatibility is rather important to us 
(probably to you too), the meaning of that particular bit of syntax 
can't change.

Believe me, I think all of us here would have preferred the comma to 
the colon.

Cheers! Hans