RE: Free-Form vs Fixed Form.

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Scott Klement
> 
> > /free syntax checking in SEU is essentially non-existent in v5r2.  I'm
> not
> > sure the syntax checker has *ever* flagged anything within a /free -
> > /end-free block.  And, believe me, I had all kinds of newbie syntax
> errors
> > early on, but had to rely on a compile listing *ERR scan to find them.
> 
> Have you found it to be better in WDSC?  I haven't.

Immeasurably better.  Not only do you have auto-completion for variables and
online help for BIFs, but you have the VERIFY function, which in effect does
a complete syntax scan of your source code very quickly.  Not quite the
immediate gratification of a line-by-line syntax check, but still quite
effective.

Joe