Re: Fortran 77 parser

James Giles wrote:
...). I've never even heard of compilers that
support just DOUBLE as a keyword, so I've never accomotated it.
As I describe above, I *could* do so. I just never thought of it.

It is yet another old CDC extension. Early Cray compilers (CFT and
first couple versions of CFT77) also supported it. What was nasty was
getting a VAX code that had DOUBLE COMPLEX in it. Often times you'd
get a clean compile, but the code would be completely wrong! A lot of
us complained to the compiler group, and eventually they saw the light
and replaced the CDCism with the VAXism.

So old extensions do die off, eventually.

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