Walt Brainerd wrote:
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>> . . . The only reason block-IF got into Fortran 77 at all is that the
>> editor snuck it in without authorization.
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>
> Huh? This was done with a written proposal that was debated
> extensively by the full committee and passed with a regular
> vote. I wrote first version of the proposal and I certainly
> was not the editor.
>
> The only thing a little sneaky was that we convinced the
> folks in Washington that this was not a large change and so
> the document didn't need another public review (the rules
> about this were quite a bit looser than they are now).
>
I should have added that the point Van makes (with
bad history) is correct. The block IF just barely made
it into F77.
It was put in after the public review.
Many members of X3J3 were opposed to it because it
was not "standard practice".
One of the convincing arguments for it was that many,
many preprocessors (such as Ratfor mentioned by Van)
implemented something like it.
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