Richard E Maine wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2004, at 8:18 AM, Aleksandar Donev wrote:
>
>> Is there a technical reason behind not allowing list-directed IO (*
>> instead of explicit format) when writing to a string buffer (as opposed
>> to an external file)?
>
> Yes, but...
>
> You must be looking at f77 docs. That limitation was in f77; it is
> lifted in f90 and afterwards.
As I heard it, one of the reasons given for lifting the ban on
list directed to internal files was that vendors claimed it was
more trouble to enforce than to just go ahead and do it.
--
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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