Thanks for this idea, I hadn't thought of it. I might give the space a
try.

Drew

On Mar 2, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Roderick W. Failing III wrote:

> Since we seem to be voting on this, my vote goes with the original
> poster.  I do not like the "%" symbol because it is too dense and makes
> code very hard to read, especially if all caps is used.   Since spaces
> are irrelevant I add a space after the "%" to make it easier to see the
> final component, which is usually the component of the most interest.
> See the examples below.
>
> allocate(g% prober(cp% nprobs))
> allocate(g%prober(cp%nprobs))
>
> g% prober(i) = curprobe% radius
> g%prober(i) = curprobe%radius
>
> I also agree with reversing the order.  It would have had the same
> effect and the delimiter would not matter.
>
> Rod Failing
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> --On 02 March 2004 14:32 +0000 John Reid <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I can't help but think the % symbol was used in Fortran just to be
>>> different to C. I sure hope there was a better reason than that,
>>> because now we all have to live with it.
>>
>> The reason was of possible syntactical ambiguities, given operators of
>
>> the form .and., .or., etc. and the Fortran tradition of having no
>> reserved words. There was a suggestion of requiring the programmer not
>
>> to write anything ambiguous, but that did not fly.
>>
>> Personally, I like '%'. If I see it, I know exactly what is going on.
>
> I too like %. Fortran has many comma separated lists. Think about
> reading such a list if it was full of structure components using the
> period as the selector! The % makes it very clear which is a component
> and which is a list item. The thing we got badly wrong in F90 was to
> make the order structure%component rather then component%structure
> (read
> component "in"
> structure) then we could have array-component%array-structure map
> sensibly onto multi-dim-array with the subscript mapping obvious. Ah
> me!
> IF we could have our time over!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> John Reid.
>
>
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