The rules for continuation of keywords on the definition specification
are:
- The specification continues on or past position 44 of the next
Definition specification dependent on the continuation character specified
- Positions 7-43 of the continuation line must be blank
Example
*.. 1 ...+... 2 ...+... 3 ...+... 4 ...+... 5 ...+... 6 ...+... 7 ...+... 8
DName+++++++++++ETDsFrom+++To/L+++IDc.Keywords+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
D Keywords-cont++++++++++++++++++++++++
DMARY C CONST(
D 'Mary had a little lamb, its -
* Only a comment or a completely blank line is allowed in here
D fleece was white as snow.'
D )
* Numeric literal, continues with the first non blank in/past position 44
*
DNUMERIC C 12345
D 67
* Graphic named constant, must have shift-out in/past position 44
DGRAF C G'oAABBCCDDi+
D oEEFFGGi'