Re: Converting fixed-to-free format


"Ken Plotkin" <kplotkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:21:18 GMT, "robin" <robin_v@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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As I said before, it isn't possible to make fixed form "safe".
Ask youself why free source form was introduced.
Because it eliminates the errors that fixed source form
allows to slip through.
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What errors - other than those associated with column restrictions -
does free form eliminate?

As well as columnar erors, there are errors involving omitted
commas and periods.
Some of these are invited because Fortran permits blanks anywhere.
IF (A .GT .5) THEN
Missing comma at the end of a line that is continued to the next
(in, say, an argument list).
Use of comma in place of a fullstop and vice versa.


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