**free optional?? -- RPG400-L

Subject: **free optional??
From: Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 22:50:50 +0000
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Quite regularly, I FTP my source files to my PC.

Today, I needed to recreate a program from a copy of the source I had saved to my PC in September 2016. It is in all free (dcl-...) but I noticed there was no **free as the first statement and it had comments starting in column 6 prefixed as **.   I sure don't recall doing that but, to my surprise, it compiled fine.

I thought **free was required and you had to use // style commenting.

Am I missing something here?

V7.2 TR6

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power

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