RE: Free format H, F, D and P specs -- RPG400-L

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Vern,

From the link Scott provided:

"Unfortunately, while RPG is a lot freer, it still isn't completely free. There are still some restrictions:
Free-form code still has to be coded between columns 8 - 80"

-Kurt

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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 4:00 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Free format H, F, D and P specs

How do you know it doesn't with this update?

I'm just asking - I don't have inside information to say it does - in fact, the documentation is coming out soon but not yet, right?

On 10/7/2013 3:53 PM, Jack Callahan wrote:

Next thing you know, IBM improve the compiler to recognize source from
beyond column 80 on a free format line.

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