Re: [open-cobol-list] Which formatting convention to use?

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 06 August 2009 11:11:23 pm Duke Normandin wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, David Essex wrote:
> > Duke Normandin wrote:
> > > David Essex wrote:
> >  > ...
> >  >
> > >> You can use what format you prefer.
> > >> The default is fixed format.
> > >
> > > ...
> > > I was looking for educated opinions as to which would serve
> > >
> >  > a noob best both now and in the long-term. ;)
> >
> > Well if you looking for an opinion, I prefer the free format.
>
> I hear you. I have similar feeling with the Win-doze folks....
>
> BTW, I still have not found an explanation of how the free format
> differs from the fixed. Is it only Col 1-6 that is done away
> with?
Column 7 which is used for special signals is merged somehow with 
column 1. Haven't quite figured out those rules yet. Columns 73-80 
have been eliminated even in the TRAD format. Back in the day we 
used to put the change date of updated statements out there.  
Handy.

Now you can use upper case, lower case, or even a mixture.
-- 
John Culleton
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