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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as
 integer*8 ?
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 15:04:38 -0500
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On 10/5/2024 1:39 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 23:10:29 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 
>> Yup, Perl, not Curl.  AutoLisp.
> 
> Poor you. The idiosyncratic syntax of Lisp without the redeeming advanced
> features.
> 
>> Yes, I am porting from Open Watcom C++ and F77 to Simply Fortran C++ and
>> GFortran right now.  Lots of new stuff that I won't use.  Incredibly
>> better error detection, especially on variable types and bounds.
> 
> If I were you, I would look for opportunities to simplify things in that
> Fortran code by using new features, where I have to make major
> modifications to those parts anyway.

All of the modifications that I am making are minor.  Mostly changing my 
old 8 byte data structure/union to I*8 and L*8.

Lynn