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From: zar@IAGO.CALTECH.EDU (Dan Zirin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: FORTRAN Zero Length Strings
Message-ID: <880217133134.2100823c@Iago.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 17 Feb 88 21:31:34 GMT
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Another reason you can't type
	VARIABLE = ''
is because two single quotes in VAX FORTRAN imply the string "'" (one
single quote. Even if DEC decided to allow zero length strings, the
above step would imply an unclosed string or "missing delimiter" error.
Maybe not, but I'd like to add my list to cheer on zero length strings
for the new standard.

On the side, anyone ever heard of an access vio with mask=25?

The Great Zar