Re: Full free form and /copy or /include

On Sep 27, 2019, at 1:39 PM, Åke Olsson <konsult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I just made a discovery that confused me.



First: I write all new code in full-free form so that I always start with a
“**FREE” in column 1 of first line and from there I code the rest more or
less from the beginning of the line with indents.



Recently I cut a piece from a program that I need to reuse frequently and
saved as a copy source for later use.



When I started a new program I just added the /copy to get all these
definitions of import fields and prototypes where they need to be.



Problem is: It did not work! The compiler complained about every single line
in the copy source. If I pasted in the lines the compile worked just fine so
there was something strange about the /copy (or for that sake /include)
itself.



Then I found that if I right-shifted all lines in the copy source 8 or so
places the /copy worked fine. But I really want to extract odd pieces from
programs and reuse as copy source without changing them.



Finally I found the working solution: Apparently I have to add a “**FREE”
line as the first line to every copy source!



This works – BUT I sort of feel that if I have instructed the compiler that
“the following source is free of column restrictions” this should apply also
to every piece of code that is copied in before compile.



Is this a bug or a feature?



/Ake H Olsson/



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