Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!lamson From: lamson@sierra.crd.ge.com (scott h lamson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: internal list-directed i/o Message-ID: Date: 30 May 90 03:13:53 GMT References: <581@illini.osc.edu> <1990May29.220407.12112@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development Lines: 22 In-reply-to: hirchert@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 29 May 90 22:04:07 GMT In article <1990May29.220407.12112@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hirchert@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Kurt Hirchert) writes: From: hirchert@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Kurt Hirchert) > In article <581@illini.osc.edu> djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg) writes: > >Can anyone give a justification as to why internal list-directed i/o > >is not required of a FORTRAN 77 implementation? > List-directed output was excluded because of the difficulty in using it > portably. > ... why this was chnged in F-90... Given this experience, i wondered why namelist was excluded from internal IO in F-90 just like list-directed IO was in F-77. Too late now, I know, but it did seem odd. scott -- Scott| ARPA: lamson@crd.ge.com Lamson| UUCP: uunet!crd.ge.com!lamson (518)387-5795| UUCP: uunet!sierra.crd.ge.com!lamson