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  3. November 2003

Re: RPG IV release levels and complexity

Scott Klement wrote:
There are two things that /FREE buys you.

   1) Extra space on each record for your statements.  (This has made a
         HUUUUGE difference in readability for me)
   2) The ability to indent your statements.

As there is absolutely no "investment" that I can see, I don't see why
you're worried about it.   It takes what, 20 minutes to learn?

I haven't seen any new features that only work in /FREE.  Have there been
any?


V5R2 has a few:

1) List of keys syntax in keyed I/O calcs:

CHAIN (thing1: thing2+17) record;

2) Key data structure, again on keyed I/O:

CHAIN %KDS(kds) record;

3) List of fields to update:

UPDATE record %FIELDS(thing1:thing2);

These were limited to free-form calcs since a fixed-form factor couldn't reasonably be expected to contain the new syntax.

The future may see more cases like this. But if I'm not mistaken, there's nothing new in V5R3 that's limited to the free-form calcs.

Cheers! Hans



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