Re: RPG V?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You CAN do comments on the right in all specifications - the last 20 
characters - you just can't do the // comments there.

You CAN do // comments on any line anywhere in the source - there's a 
weirdness there, however - in every place other than a free-form block, 
the // can be anywhere, including positions 6 & 7. In a free block, they 
must not be in those positions, they have to be in 7 & 8 or higher. This 
is an irritation to me, especially as the converter to free in WDSC 
doesn't always handle this correctly.

In free blocks, a comment with // starting in position 6 does not raise 
an error in SEU - and probably not WDCS, either. But it fails to compile 
- sorry - this is just foolish!

Voris, John wrote:

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>   But . . . . 
>
>   What I really, really would have liked is in the D-spec to allow
> comments on the right . . . 
>   to allow a D-spec keyword TEXT('Description') -or- allow us to put to
> the right-hand side   // Description 
>   rather than wasting another line of source, and then confusing
> maintenance pgmrs with 
>   "Does the comment line go to the line above or the line below?"
>   
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