Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!life!burley From: burley@pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Fortran comments Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 91 05:39:49 GMT References: <145298@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Free Software Foundation 545 Tech Square Cambridge, MA 02139 Lines: 15 In-reply-to: yding@unix.cis.pitt.edu's message of 27 Jun 91 16:59:09 GMT In article <145298@unix.cis.pitt.edu> yding@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Yijun Ding ) writes: I would like to use the following style to comment Fortran file: a=1 ! Theis is a comment i.e., by using '!' character. Is this standard in Fortran statement? Not in ANSI standard FORTRAN 77. Many vendors support it, however, and/or use of '/*' (with or without a terminating '*/' -- I don't remember seeing any implementations that supported a terminating '*/', however, but I suspect there are some) as a comment delimiter. -- James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu