Re: Free-format RPG -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Free-format RPG
From: Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:44:22 -0400
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E Doc wrote:

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6.  SQL statements in /Free format, in a word, suck.  ...

I agree 100%. Hopefully, we can fix that in a future release. But unfortunately, it won't be the next one.

5. Everyone hates the semi-colons. Hans, you gotta lose those. ;)

No can do. The compiler needs some way to unambiguously delimit statements. If we had some other syntax, there'd be people complaining about that method too. And supporting different syntaxes now is right out of the question.

(One of the reasons we choose a statement terminator is because there were already umpteen different ways of indicating continuation, none of which would be acceptable for statement continuation.)

Cheers! Hans

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