Re: CLEAR and chain

Vern,


Well, as someone who got to code in RPG with a S/32 more than 30 years ago,
I can tell you that I was really glad to see those letters (SR) go away.
Nevertheless, I was somewhat surprised recently (last year) when I found
that one of my co-programmers wrote his routines that way. Well, to each his
own... (No, I don't want to begin a new thread about programming styles,
that is something very personal).

And, BTW, as the last /end-free is optional, I'm not losing my hope that
sometime we can see those lines disappear too :-)

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Very cool - wouldn't it be nice if the /free /end-free became optional?
Soon?

:-)

On 2/6/2011 1:20 PM, Douglas Handy wrote:

Vern,

Because there might be those who do NOT know (I had an idea but looked

it up), I'll answer the SR question from the reference manual -

"An SR entry in positions 7 and 8 may optionally be used for operations
within subroutines as a documentation aid."

FWIW, back in the days of RPG II on the S/3 and S/32 it was not optional.
The SR became optional with the S/34 compiler (also RPG II).

Just more arcane gnostic information from someone who was there more than

15

years ago (times two!)...

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