Re: Namelist Internal Read

From: Walt Brainerd (walt_at_fortran.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:05:38 -0700
To: James Giles <jamesgiles@worldnet.att.net>

James Giles wrote:
> Walt Brainerd wrote:
>
>>gary.l.scott@lmco.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've also never quite understood the need for the quirky &.../
>>>syntax.
>>
>>It's the same reason as the inconsistent names for
>>the bit intrinsics. I am not sure where namelist
>>came from originally, but probably some vendor did
>>it many years ago and some individual thought up
>>what seemed like a neat scheme at the time.
>>
>>When it came up for standardization, "existing
>>practice" was picked, rather than a nicer design.
>
>
> Actually, I don't think the standard adopted the same syntax as
> any of the prior existing implementations. Maybe. But it's
> different from the several I used before (each different from
> the others as well). If they adopted "existing practice" for
> this, I don't know what implementation they got it from.

Well, that was one of the arguments for not adopting
"existing practice" in this case (and probably most):
although they were similar, almost all implementations
had something different from the others. It wouldn't be
fair to pick one implementation, so it was made a
little different from each. "Existing practice" in that
case meant something similar to what most vendors had
implemented. 

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