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Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
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On 04/10/2024 21:36, Gary Scott wrote:
> On 10/4/2024 3:04 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 12:13:52 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:
>>
>>> but not as friendly as
>>>         character*28 txthdr /'Text header, with a comma   ' /
>>
>> With all these additions to Fortran, I keep wondering “when will they
>> finish reinventing PL/I?”. Because at an early point in the development of
>> PL/I, they were going to call it “FORTRAN VI”.
>>
>> One PL/I feature still missing from Fortran is VARYING strings.
> 
> Fortran does have a form of varying string...just not super convenient to use in the general case.


Yes but for practical purposes it only works for scalars, not arrays.  Since nearly all the rest of Fortran is based on the (unstated, but widely-understood) principle that arrays are first-class objects, this is a real pity.

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Clive Page