Re: Lost BLOCKDATA initialisation in LIB files ... On the assumption that the BLOCKDATA initialisations are done at link-time, ...COMMON from the host application with a separate BLOCKDATA; ...differing initializations are readily available. ... When used with a loader... (comp.lang.fortran)
Re: When will this ng come to accept that Fortran needs to go "back to the future" ? ... Mandated backward compatibility is insuring fortran survival despite ... I fully agree with your comments about COMMON - used without tricks ... and if it isn't a nightmare for the compiler writer,...Fortran programming - I never felt a real need for it - and I wrote ... (comp.lang.fortran)
Re: Strange Fortran version ..."ENTRY lable" was common in some Fortran IV subroutines and probably ...Fortran compilers (many were written as a higher exercise in M.SC tasks ... (comp.lang.fortran)
Re: When will this ng come to accept that Fortran needs to go "back to the future" ? ... Mandated backward compatibility is insuring fortran survival despite ... I fully agree with your comments about COMMON - used without tricks ...Fortran programming - I never felt a real need for it - and I wrote ... But I would support it if it can be done as a clean extension from the ... (comp.lang.fortran)
Re: keyword capitalization -- current practice ... with regards to capitalizing keywords in Fortran.... I'm not convinced that you will find a single most common style.... I've also seen styles where people capitalize the first letter of ... (comp.lang.fortran)
