Author: TerenceTerence Date: Jun 9, 2008 15:41
On Jun 9, 2:36 am, nos...@see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote:
> Steve Lionel wrote:
>> Richard Maine wrote:
>
>>> A free form of some sort or other was done quite a lot in later f77
>>> compilers. For example VAX Fortran had one. That alone accounts for a
>>> nontrivial fraction of f77.
>
>> As a former developer on VAX Fortran, I would disagree with this. What
>> you may be thinking of is what DEC called "tab source form", which was a
>> slight variation on fixed-form that used a tab to separate the label
>> field from the statement field, with continuation depending on whether a
>> non-zero digit followed the tab. Other than that, it followed
>> fixed-form source rules including ignoring blanks and a 72-column limit.
>
> Yes, that's what I was referring to. I know it wasn't the f90 variant. I
> think of it as simillar in that you didn't have to count columns (except
> for the col 72 limit, but then that is less often an issue that col 7,
> and even f90 has such a limit - its just larger).
> ...
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