RE: Free-format RPG

["Tracy Ball" <TBall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Was a period (".") considered as a line delimiter?   I understand the need for 
the delimiter, however, the semi-colon is a bit untidy looking.  All things 
considered, /free is a wonderful product.  I am becoming more fluent each day.  
I just wish I had the time to just take a few months and play (I know, every 
programmer's dream job) with the new syntax.

Tracy L. Ball
The Jackson Group
Sr. Programmer/Analyst 
(317) 781-4600 ext. 3107



-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Clifford [mailto:Pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 1:43 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Free-format RPG


The semicolons are a drag. They are in C too. Just like periods in COBOL.
But as Hans says, there just is no way getting round them.

Anyway, if all the good things about /free came without just a little pain,
it would surely be so good it would have to be illegal?

"Hans Boldt" <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:b8bv27$pvq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> E Doc wrote:
> > ...
> > 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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