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Article #1258Re: FORTRAN I/O (Was: Lessons from Algol)
From: Jim Giles
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 22:44
Date: Fri, 04 May 1990 22:44
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From article <1990May4.170754.18659@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, by rsc@merit.edu (Richard Conto):
> Using the IBM FORTRANVS compiler (which is supposed to be FORTRAN-77 with
> extensions) on the following program:
> PROGRAM TESTIO
> INTEGER I
> REAL Q
> DO 10 I=1,10
> Q = SQRT(I*1.0)
> 10 WRITE(*,*) ' SQRT(',I,') is ',Q
> END
> I got the following output:
>
> SQRT(1,) is 1.,
> [...]
> SQRT(10,) is 3.162277,
Your Fortran I/O library is broken. The commas (and blanks) are allowed
to be inserted as value _separators_ - so the trailing comma on the each
line is wrong. Furthermore:
ANSI X3.9-1978, page 13-16, line 14:
Character constants produced are not delimited by
apostrophes, are not preceded or followed by a value
separator, ....
So, all the commas or spaces that your library inserted before,
After, or between character values are wrong. In short, all the
commas in your example output are non-standard. I'd complain to
IBM if I were you :-).
J. Giles
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!cmcl2!lanl!lambda!jlg From: jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: FORTRAN I/O (Was: Lessons from Algol) Message-ID: <14359@lambda.UUCP> Date: 4 May 90 22:44:06 GMT References: <1990May4.170754.18659@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Lines: 31