Re: AW: Line longer than 80 characters

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Birgitta - I think your description of fully-free does not match the 
manual - here is the bit from the 7.2 ILE RPG Reference

RPG source with the special directive **FREE in the first line contains 
only free-form code. The code can begin in column 1 and extend to the 
end of the line.

There is no practical limit on the length of a source line in fully 
free-form source.

Fixed-form code is not allowed in fully free-form source, but 
column-limited source which uses only columns 6-80 can be included by 
using the /COPY or /INCLUDE directive.


As I read this, **FREE must be in line 1. The entire source text must fe 
free-format. And any include member that is limited to columns 6-80 can 
be included. That would be either fixed or free format.

Am I missing something? Or did Barbara change something since the last 
post in RPG Cafe?

Regards
Vern

On 2/12/2016 12:15 AM, Birgitta Hauser wrote:
> With the appropriate PTFs you can code completely free in RPG.
> If you specify **FREE in position 1 in a row in your source code, all
> subsequent RPG statements must be completely free and can be written between
> position 1 and the length of your source file.
>
> Within your source code there is no way to go back to fixed format P, F-, D,
> C-Specs.
>
> i.e. if you want to add new code at the end of an existing source, you can
> continue in completely free, by specifying *FREE after the existing source
> code.
> But it is not possible for example to include a copy-member in this
> completely free source code that includes fixed format specs.
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
>
> Birgitta Hauser
>
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Alan
> Campin
> Gesendet: Friday, 12.2 2016 00:47
> An: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
> Betreff: Line longer than 80 characters
>
> Anyone heard anything more on being able to have lines longer than 80
> characters in RPG? The ability to use positions 1 through 6 and 81 out for
> code.
>
> The last I heard about it was waiting for PTF's to implement in RPG
> compilers.
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