Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!udel!haven!umbc3!mbph!hybl From: hybl@mbph.UUCP (Albert Hybl Dept of Biophysics SM) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Two Fortran Standards Summary: F8x features in VAX/VMS Message-ID: <613@mbph.UUCP> Date: 20 Sep 89 15:32:29 GMT References: <:> <1073@cernvax.UUCP> <1805@convex.UUCP> Organization: University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201 Lines: 49 In message <1805@convex.UUCP> from psmith@mozart.uucp, Presley Smith writes: >Maybe someone would like to enlighten us as to what Fortran 8x >features are in the VAX/VMS compilers... In message from mccalpin@masig3.ocean.fsu.edu, John D. McCalpin wrote: >In message <5272@garfield.MUN.EDU> chris2@garfield.MUN.EDU (Chris >Paulse) writes: >>I was recently sent some Fortran code which was written for >>VAX/VMS that included some extensions that made our bsd f77 >>compiler hiccup. The particular extensions that did this were >> o comments at the end of a line indicated as ... >> SOURCE GOES HERE ! this is a comment >> o the do/enddo construct >>Does there exist a preprocessor for this flavor of F77 which >>will easily convert it back to vanilla f77? > >My mailer couldn't find garfield.mun.edu, so here is a lex program >that should do the trick. --lex program deleted-- Well, there are two. Let us thank John for providing the lex program. It will allow me to consider using the DO...ENDDO syntax and still keep my 3B1/SVS compiler. I notice with some sadness that John used lex instead of fortran to encode the filter. It shows that fortran lacks character! I hope that F8x will be substantially enhanced in this area! I joined ACM _many_ year ago and subscribe to Fortran Forum in part because they had published draft language standards in their technical journals. In volume 8 number 3 (August 1989) of Fortran Forum, I read: "SIGPLAN has budgeted for continuing this practice of publishing draft Programming Language standards (either in SIGPLAN Notices or in news-letters such as Fortran Forum), as a service to its constituency." Until F8x is printed in Fortran Forum, I will be without a draft copy. Thanks to CBEMA that may be too late for me to contribute to the debate on what features should or should not be included. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Albert Hybl, PhD. Office UUCP: uunet!mimsy!mbph!hybl Department of Biophysics Home UUCP: uunet!mimsy!mbph!hybl!ah University of Maryland CoSy: ahybl School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: (301) 328-7940 (Office) ----------------------------------------------------------------------