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From: "Richard Maine" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: New intrinsics
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> > Richard Maine wrote,
> [on the subject of upper/lower-casing]
> > >I once proposed (unoficially and orally) such an intrinsic,
> > >and Phillip has basically sumarized the reply I got. It was
> > >obvious that this had been discussed before. I didn't pursue
> > >it further (with questions like "well how about the easy cases;
> > >that would still be useful". Such questions occurred to me, but
> > >it didn't seem worth arguing further at the time).
>
> > Someone suggested in this thread that such an intrinsic should only be
aligned
> > to EBCDIC or ASCII.
>
> That's among the kinds of "easy cases" that I was referring to above
> when I said that such things occured to me, but didn't seem worth
> arguing about at the time. It was easier to just keep my own
> functions. Please note that I am *AGREEING* with you. I'd like such
> intrinsics. If they existed, I'd use them. I'm just not willing to
> spend my wishes in arguing for them, since the suggestion wasn't
> immediately accepted.
>
> > Do I assume that the only way that ADJUSTL/R came into being was
because the
> > blank character has the same representation in all the aforementioned
systems?
>
> No. The representation doesn't matter (and it's not the same on all
> systems). All that matters is that there *is* a character assigned to
> the role of blank. The standard requires this of any character set.
>
> > Regardless of Phillip's and Richard's comments, this should be simple
IF IT IS
> > RESTRICTED TO THE CHARACTER SET DEFINED BY THE FORTRAN STANDARD. Sorry
to
> > shout, but isn't this a good basis for a manifoldly (such a word :-)
used
> > function.
>
> Yes. See above. I agree. That doesn't mean I'm willing to go fight
> for it. If I fought for everything I wanted, I'd be pretty bloody by
> now (and I'd probably have actually gotten less of my wishes because
> of the resulting tarnished reputation).
>
> --
> Richard Maine
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