RE: Convert from free to fixed

I know what you mean. we have some serious programs that were originally written before structured constructs or the the CALL existed. You can imagine the goto's that would be fun to work around in freeform. Sigh - some day.

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date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:18:27 -0500
from: Jerry Adams <Jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Convert from free to fixed

I can understand where you're coming from, Tom. I have to maintain a gazillion (it seems) lines of RPG II code running in the 36E. Sometimes the change is so simple a few lines of code do the trick. Other times not quite; then I write an RPG IV program and call it from the RPG II program. Occasionally changes they (whoever "they" are) wanted were impossible to do with a few lines or a call so I had to re-write the RPG II program, but I re-wrote it in RPG IV. In my case it's not so much the integrity of the RPG II code (which is a mess) but a matter of time (adding lines and testing -vs- re-writing and testing).




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