Re: Using the RPG Cycle

I don't understand this fascination with trying to load up the new RPG with all the old crap.

If you want the new stuff use the new stuff. If you want the old stuff use that.

The removal of the requirement to code /Free /End-Free means that a fixed form lie can be introduced anywhere. Personally if someone if going to use old techniques in the code I'd kind of like that heads-up.

I don't want my $s spent on free-form versions of stuff I'd rather not have people do to begin with.

Not picking on you John Y - just the whole thrust of this stuff. We've begged IBM for years to make RPG more modern - they do it - and now we want to bog it down again? What's next - free-form I-specs? Free-form compile time data.


Jon Paris

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On May 5, 2017, at 3:19 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:03 PM, <dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, as soon as any level indicator L0 ... L9 or LR is
encountered, that terminates detail calculations. So, free-format
statements after that are taken as total-time calculations until the first
BEGSR or DCL-PROC statement is encountered.

Interesting. It still doesn't get rid of that one C spec, though.
Rhetorical question: How hard would it be for them to just provide
some kind of free-form way to express what that C spec expresses?

John Y.
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