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From: parke@star.enet.dec.com (Bill Parke)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: How many different ASCII textfile formats are there?
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Date: 30 May 91 19:49:43 GMT
References: <1991May27.162515.665@looking.on.ca> <1991May29.174634.23343@csl.dl.nec.com> <23015@shlump.lkg.dec.com> <1991May30.174600.17855@unixg.ubc.ca>
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>From: buckland@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Tony Buckland)
>Newsgroups: comp.misc
>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".
>>
>
> I'm surprised it didn't assign to WRITEI, since blanks are of no

The significant part of the equation is that WRITE is 5 characters, and
the DEC-10 word hpolds 5 ASCII characters and I turned on the bottom (36th)
bit which told the compiler that "WRITE" was a line number,  Therefor
the compiler saw linenumber(WRITE) identifier(i) equals(=) constant(1)
as the tokens from the line.

It was most fun having loops that didnt by having:

	linenumber("DO 10") equation (i=1) Linenumber(",3)
ended with:

	linenumber("10   ") tab-character equation(...)

Made it real hard for someone to copy your homework from a listing.

--
Bill Parke
VMS Development			decwrl!star.enet.dec.com!parke
Digital Equipment Corp		parke@star.enet.dec.com
110 Spit Brook Road ZK01-1/F22, Nashua NH 03063

The views expressed are my own.