Re: Free format question on D specs -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Free format question on D specs
From: Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 13:45:04 -0500
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On 2019-02-01 9:52 AM, John Yeung wrote:

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 5:27 PM Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... Earlier you said the free-form scanner code is "almost the same" as
the fixed-form scanner code. Why almost? Why isn't there a single
codebase which serves both? If they are separate anyway, why couldn't
the free-form scanner be made deliberately less similar? (And again,
maybe this is something for RPG V.)

By "almost the same", I meant that both free-form and fixed-form scanning use the exact same functions for definitions aside from the code the compiler uses to get information from the columns in the fixed-form definitions, or from the initial keywords in free-form. Once the compiler gets past that initial gathering of information, it handles fixed-form and free-form with all the same old functions that were formerly only for fixed-form.

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