Re: Inline Syntax Checking

[Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>]

You don't have to worry about /copy members; the compiler handles that
automatically.  For any comments with * in column 7, just add // somewhere
before it.

Also, in addition to **free, there is **end-free, which does what you think
it does.  I believe this is undocumented and not supported, but I've used
it so that I could have output specs for a report in a program I created.
IBM uses it for embedded SQL code that it converts to fixed column RPG.  I
suppose that, if **end-free went away, I'd have to put the O specs in a
/copy member.

- Dan

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Greg Wilburn <
gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OK  now I see!  :)
>
> I stopped using the "slash-free" a long time ago.  Somewhere I missed
> "asterisk-asterisk-free".
>
> I'm on v7r3 - just upgraded a few weeks ago.  Have the latest TR.
> Added **free as the first statement in one of my source members, but now
> it doesn't like my comments where I used single asterisk in column 7.  I
> would have to change the comments in my source members and all the /copy
> members.
>
> Eeek.  Maybe I'll just leave things alone for now.
>
> Thanks Dan (and Ken)!