RE: Postfixed characters ( was RPG, open source, and the web)

Count me in for the first method.

I find the second one "harder" to read as your mind needs to filter the clutter of the semicolon.

Strangly enough, when it's about concatenating strings, I usually put the + at the beginning, maybe because it indicates that the two lines are related to each other (while parameters are some sort of independant from each other).

myString = 'Hello'
+ 'world.';

Getting rid of the restrictions of the length of a line for the compiler would even be a better thing... I always found it a bit silly to move to free format, and then limit a line to a prehistoric length.

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Subject: Postfixed characters ( was RPG, open source, and the web)

RE: prefixed commas . . are more readable , more understandable.

So in RPG, which do people think is more readable:

promptPrintForms(
rbcnppfUSER :
rbcnppfSSN :
rbcnppfSTDCD :
rbcnppfPKG :
rbcnppfID :
rbcnppfTXNO :
rbcnppfHCOR :
rbcnppfRESULT :
rbcnppfDO_ALL )

-or-

promptPrintForms
( rbcnppfUSER
: rbcnppfSSN
: rbcnppfSTDCD
: rbcnppfPKG
: rbcnppfID
: rbcnppfTXNO
: rbcnppfHCOR
: rbcnppfRESULT
: rbcnppfDO_ALL
)

This different format is not something that can be easily customized
inside your RDp editor,
but code-generators /and/ snippets might work well with this format.

The main thing is not to mix the two different styles within the same
section of code.
Make a logical break in the code if you are going to change the style.

- John Voris