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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 22:06:58 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 14:34:01 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:

> My code used to assign Hollerith to Real numbers but I ripped that out 
> years ago in a project to get rid of Hollerith.

Fortran was the first programming language I learned (from the Anna Burke 
Harris book). The only kind of string literals I can remember in that 
first learning were Hollerith literals. I liked the fact that they were 
unambiguous: because length was explicit up front, you could any 
characters you liked in them.

Later I discovered that “normal” people preferred explicitly-delimited 
string literals.