Definition Specification Keyword Field

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'