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From: buckland@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
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Subject: Re: How many different ASCII textfile formats are there?
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Date: 30 May 91 17:46:00 GMT
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In article <23015@shlump.lkg.dec.com> parke@star.enet.dec.com (Bill Parke) writes:
> ... my progam which worked correctly but was almost the death of
>a TA in my FORTRAN class.  It included the statement "WRITE I=6".
>
>Hint, it correctly assigned 6 to I and yealded no compile errors.

 I'm surprised it didn't assign to WRITEI, since blanks are of no
 significance in FORTRAN outside character constants.  A famous
 example of the consequences is the substitution for
 
      DO 1 I = 1,10
 
 of
 
      DO 1 I = 1 10
 
 which turns a DO-loop control statement into an assignment
 statement because of an omitted comma.