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  3. January 2009

Re: Good places to use "The Cycle" in today's RPG was->Re: FW: Niftiest thing(s) you have done in RPG ILE or /FREE

Chris Pando wrote:

Doesn't matter, a preprocessor converts all of your
/free statements to fixed format before calling the
compiler. In other words, the compiler hasn't
got the slightest idea whether you are using
fixed or free format.


Not so. The RPG compiler understands how to handle both fixed and free code. Anyway, it's impossible to convert many free statements to fixed format.

For example, this CHAIN opcode - a list of keys is not supported in fixed form.

chain ('X2' : 0) rec;

Or this CLEAR operation with a variable name longer than 14 characters.

clear myLongVariableName;


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