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Re: infds in free form

On 1/19/23 10:12 AM, Mark Waterbury wrote:
But, why waste time and effort transforming old copy book members into /free format when it is not needed?  The RPG IV compiler understands the older fixed format, and at each /copy or /include file member boundary, you can switch between /free format and fixed format.
So, the existing copy book members are perfectly fine ...
Just saying ...?

Indeed, there is *nothing* wrong with traditional RPG format, period. And personally, I still think that IBM could have made much better use of their time turning the long-forgotten PL/I compiler (what was that alphabet soup for "not-a-LPP"?) into a LPP, instead of trying to make RPG look like a cross between PL/I and QBASIC.

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JHHL

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