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Re: Is **FREE even needed?

To be even more didactic - heh - **free is needed ONLY if you want to use columns 1-7 for code, and go out to the full width of the source member.

You can always use only-free starting in column 8, I do it all the time, as probably do you.

Vern

On 6/18/2020 11:25 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
Your impression is correct - and the sample code is also correct.

There is only 1 member in the 7.3 samples that is fully-free - JSONTEST.

The rest have ONLY free-form code, but that doesn't make them fully-free by the new definition, where you CAN use the full width, all the way back to column 1.

Regards
Vern

On 6/18/2020 11:16 AM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
I was under the impression that it was necessary to begin fully-free RPG
with **free in column 1 of line 1. But fully-free sample code in file
QOAR/SAMPLE provided by IBM just begins on line 1 column 8. It compiles
fine. It appears that **free is not really necessary. How about that?



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