Re: Full Free RPG and modification marks

I think it is important to point out for the archive that part of your comment is a little misleading.

You can go (very nearly) full free form and lose all the H, D, etc. specs _without_ giving up the ability to use the sequence number area for mod marks etc.

We are however, as someone else pointed out, limited to columns 8 to 80 for the source. Personally I have never found that a problem and use this approach often because I have to annotate code lines to reference them in teaching materials and articles and rarely need to go beyond column 80.

Also you have not needed to use /Free for some time (V7.1?) regardless of how much freedom you use.

So we effectively have four "degrees" of freedom at which we can code.

**Free - all columns, any length source line

Mostly free - columns 8 -80 for RPG code

Free form calls - with fixed form definitions and H-specs etc.

Fixed form - with the only free stuff being EVALs, IFs, etc.

On Oct 3, 2019, at 9:15 AM, tim.feldmeier <tim.feldmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Once you go to full free form, you will never return to those silly H, F, C.. etc parameters.You must remember your program is always in free form and non-free form mode at the same time. ..../Free is not needed.To make mode mark -- put mode in the left or right margin as you always have done.To make a comment - use // or *The * must be in the position it always was in.Unless, you are using a display or print file-- you won't ever use the Opt-F definition. Instead-- use SQL for i/o.The definitions are:Ctl-optDcl-fDcl-dDcl-dsDcl-prDcl-pi
Once you go to full free form, you will never return to those silly H, F, C.. etc parameters.You must remember your program is always in free form and non-free form mode.To make mode mark -- put mode in the left margin as you always have done.To make a comment - use // or *The * must be in the position it always was in.Unless, you are using a display or print file-- you wont ever use the Opt-F definition... use SQL for i/o.The definitions are:Ctl-optDcl-fDcl-dDcl-dsDcl-prDcl-procDcl-pi Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
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