Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

John Harper wrote:
>
> In article <433B1C69.21F1152@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Duane Bozarth <dp_bozarth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >richard symonds wrote:
> >> ...For example, today I
> >> realized that a "C" in column 1 is not recognized as a comment in F90.
> >
> >That's not <quite> correct--it isn't exactly F90, it's free source form
> >as opposed to fixed source form although free source form was introduced
> >in F90. You can write F90/95-compliant Fortran in traditional fixed
> >format source form. (Although I think the free source form is much more
> >readable in general).
>
> True. But Richard may not yet know that some compilers assume a program
> name ending .f is in fixed source form, but in .f90 is free source form.
> Some compilers have options like -free or -fixed for specifying it.
> But that is a matter explained in a particular compiler's documentation;
> it's not part of Fortran itself.

Good point, John. If I had been thinking I would have pointed that
out....
.

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