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From: terry@terminus.UUCP (terry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Object-oriented DATA statement in FORTRAN 8X
Summary: FORTRASH 8X
Message-ID: <75@terminus.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 88 05:08:47 GMT
References: <1041@pembina.UUCP>
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In article <1041@pembina.UUCP>, uqv-mts!Mark_Israel@alberta.UUCP (Mark Israel) writes:
> Could someone please explain for me the purpose of the
> "object-oriented" DATA statement in the FORTRAN 8X draft standard?
> (It's described in section 5.2.6.2 .)  What can it do that the
> list-oriented DATA statement couldn't have been extended to do?

Require that perfectly good code be rewritten... (*,-)


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