Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designate an integer value as integer*8 ?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 14:34:01 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

My code used to assign Hollerith to Real numbers but I ripped that out
years ago in a project to get rid of Hollerith.

 Fortran was the first programming language I learned (from the Anna Burke
Harris book). The only kind of string literals I can remember in that
first learning were Hollerith literals. I liked the fact that they were
unambiguous: because length was explicit up front, you could any
characters you liked in them.
 Later I discovered that “normal” people preferred explicitly-delimited
string literals.
 

Assuming 4 bytes to a word, I find
       integer txthdr (7) /4hText, 4h hea, 4hder,, 4h wit, 4hh a , 4hcomm, 4ha    /
uglier than
       integer txthdr (7) /'Text', ' hea', 'der,', ' wit', 'h a ', 'comm', 'a   ' /
but not as friendly as
       character*28 txthdr /'Text header, with a comma   ' /
As to making all variables containing strings integer back before Fortran 77, that was an insurance policy to prevent disasters such as:
       integer init4 / 4hinit /
       real text4
c
c       snip
c
       text4 = init4