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Jon Paris wrote:

I'm hoping it is a bug Joe. When /Free was announced it was stated that while the "missing parens" syntax would continue to be supported in fixed form, that empty parens _would_ be supported in fixed and required in /Free.


Jon, if it _is_ a bug, it's one that we just have to live with, unfortunately. The compiler can't start requiring empty parens now.

Parens _are_ required for no-return-value calls in /free, but not for calls in expressions. I don't particularly like this inconsistency. Me, I think the parens should always be optional.

1 D proc pr 1a
2 D x s 1a
3 /free
4 proc;
5 x = proc;

*RNF5502 20 4 000400 Parentheses are required following the
procedure name.

Cause . . . . . : On a Free-form Calculation Specification with opcode
CALLP, parentheses are required following the procedure name.

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