Re: NEWBIE QUESTION

Duane Bozarth wrote:
| Jugoslav Dujic wrote:
||
| ...
|| Learn something new every day... I didn't know it was possible in this way.
||
|| However, changing the source form for the extension is IMO a recipe for
|| confusion. It's easier to conform to the de facto standard (.f90 for
|| freeform, .for or .f for fixed-form) than to port to other compilers and
|| fiddle with compiler options. And this is only the most trivial example. ...
|
| In general I can't argue w/ that, Jugoslav... :)
|
| But, in defense of this alternative for such items, if one is building a
| project in the IDE, it all gets handled there "automagically" so it
| becomes essentially a part of the project definition. It has always
| seemed to me that there is sort of an implicit implication that if one
| is building a project in CVF using VS that wide-spread porting isn't a
| priority.

In general I can't argue w/ that, Duane... :-)

Take myself for an example :-). Although I do advocate following the
standards as much as possible, I mostly don't practice what I preach;
I unhumbly consider myself as a "Master of Tweaks in VF".

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