Richard Maine wrote:
> --On Friday, September 3, 2004 2:09 PM -0600 James Giles
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
...
>> For those of us with difficulty navigating the mysteries of the
>> j3-fortran website, could you be more specific about the
>> potential ambiguity?
> [...] the basic question
> involved things like 5*42, where the 42 could validly be interpreted
> as either an undelimited character string or as a number. All is
> fine if the I/O list has either 5 character items or 5 numeric
> items, but suppose it has a mix of character and numeric items
> here? Can the 42 be a character for some of the 5 repeats and a
> number for the others, or does it have to have the same interpretation
> for each of the 5 repeats?
>
> The best answer is, IMO, just don't do that - yukk. [...]
Thanks for the answer. And your reply gave me the best
laught of the day. "Doctor, it hurts when I do this"...
--
J. Giles
"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software
design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously
no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies." -- C. A. R. Hoare
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