Re: Full free form and /copy or /include

[Jason Olson <josys36@xxxxxxxxx>]

What Jon said. :)


Thanks,

Jason E. Olson
IBM i Engineer/Developer
josys36@xxxxxxxxx
480.223.2952


On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 1:40 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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>
>
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