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Hi John,
I understand how you made the mistake.
FWIW -- there are _very_ few things that can be done in free format that
you can't also do in fixed format. (in almost the exact same way!)
The big advantages to free format are:
1) The ability to indent code (since opcodes, factor1/factor2/result,
etc) don't have to be in particular positions.
2) More space, since you don't waste about 1/2 of each line of code with
unnecessarily blanks. This is the BIGGIE for me... having space to
write things. It was so hard to make expressions fit in the "extended
factor 2" syntax, since you were so limited in space.
The advantage is NOT functionality. Aside from the %FIELDS BIF, I can't
think of anything that you can code in free-format that doesn't also
work in fixed.
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