Re: Free format H, F, D and P specs

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2013-10-10, at 10:39 AM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The fact is, if EBCDIC can be "worked around" with C and C++, there is
no technical reason they couldn't be worked around with RPG.

"The fact is" that IBM have no incentive to make life difficult for the
many people that such an incompatible change would introduce.
And I'm cool with that.

If I feel an overwhelming need for { } the I'll write myself a pre-processor.

I don't know if you're losing sight of the fact that I'm not a
proponent of braces in RPG. I'm cool with RPG as it is, and I'm cool
with IBM changing RPG however they see fit. The *only* point I'm
making is that there is no technical reason why *EBCDIC* would be a
bigger stumbling block to adding braces than the semantics of the
braces.

In other words, of the myriad reasons not to add braces to RPG,
character encoding issues are not anywhere near the top of the list.

John