Re: Block printing lines in LPEX - Last Change Date included

Gee, I just convert the code to Free format, and I can visually see the indents!

I try to keep it under 5 levels of indentation, but some old code goes 12 levels deep, or deeper.

Free your code! Free yourself from punch-card-limitation from the 1950's, 60's & 70's! <Big Smile>

If we no longer use punch-cards, why do some still code in the punch-card format? Nostalgia for their youth maybe?

Since going free, I no longer use the Ctrl+Shift+O (Show Nesting block). It no longer serves a purpose on Free-format code.

PS. I use a third-party tool to update the Free-format and automatically indent the code RDI, RPG Tool-Box. RDI now has a built in indenter, which is okay for start. But doesn't compare to companies that have been doing it for decades. Experience always rules the day!

-Ken Killian-


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I'm sure there's an official name, but I don't know what it is. If you used RDi, you could press Ctrl-Shift-O and see them for yourself :-) They are vertical lines and horizontal arrows which connect the tops and bottoms of control blocks, for example IF and ENDIF. If there's nesting, there is one line for each control block. Makes it easier to follow logic in code where a control block is a hundred lines long and nested 12 deep :-/

They are created on the fly, and as far as I can tell, not stored with the source member in the cache. They are not persistent; RDi won't show them tomorrow. I didn't try to look through all of the workspace to see if there are other places this might be squirreled away.