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From: Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 13:52:01 -0500
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On 10/5/2024 11:42 AM, Clive Page wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yes.  I've however never found the fixed length strings to be a major 
hindrance.  I know exactly how they work and have been able to 
adequately mimic/store variable length strings within reasonably sized 
fixed length buffers (various methods).  I really liked the flexibility 
of string/text processing of IBM's DCF/Script/GML.  How that was 
powerful string handling.