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Obsolete Statement Structuring
The following syntax forms are obsolete. They are forbidden within ABAP Objects, and outside of classes they cause the syntax check to issue warnings:
- Outside of classes, separators (blank characters, commas, colons periods, or the end of a line) after literals or offset/length specifications can be omitted.
- Outside of classes, the operators for offset and length can be omitted in offset/length specifications. A single plus sign directly after a field name, a plus sign that directly follows a parenthetical expression, or an empty parenthetical expression after a plus sign, an offset value, or a field name, are interpreted as not existing.