Free-Form Specification

The rules for continuation on a free-form calculation specification are:

• The free-form line can be continued on the next line. The statement continues until a semicolon is encountered.

  Example

    /FREE
               time = hours * num_employees
                        + overtime_saved;
    /END-FREE

• A continuation character is not used to continue a statement on a subsequent line unless a name or a literal is being continued. See Continuation Rules for more information about continuing names and literals.

• Continuation is not allowed for numeric literals. Numeric literals must be specified on a single line in free-form.