Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!uflorida!novavax!hcx1!bill From: bill@ssd.harris.com (Bill Leonard) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: dpANS Fortran 8x Message-ID: Date: 16 Jun 89 17:52:24 GMT References: <2721@elxsi.UUCP> <561@rb-dc1.UUCP> Sender: news@hcx1.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division Lines: 23 In-reply-to: shapiro@rb-dc1.UUCP's message of 13 Jun 89 17:17:35 GMT In article <561@rb-dc1.UUCP> shapiro@rb-dc1.UUCP (Mike Shapiro) writes: One possible partial solution, which can be considered implementation-independent, is that used in Gould Common Fortran: > A tab character in any of the first six positions of a > line is interpreted as a skip to position 7. This indi- > cates that all the following characters in the line are > to be treated as a statement. A tab character anywhere Hmmm, you missed my point entirely, I'm afraid. I didn't say there wasn't a possible interpretation, but that there are many! I also tried to point out that many people want the interpretation to correspond with the visual interpretation they get from whatever display device they use, but that those vary from device to device. I recall from when I worked on the FORTRAN compiler for Gould that some customers complained that a tab in their source skipped to column 7, but the terminal did not! -- Bill Leonard Harris Computer Systems Division 2101 W. Cypress Creek Road Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 bill@ssd.harris.com or hcx1!bill@uunet.uu.net