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

Steven G. Kargl wrote:

On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:04:05 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 12:13:52 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:
>

but not as friendly as
        character*28 txthdr /'Text header, with a comma   ' /

>
With all these additions to Fortran, I keep wondering “when will they
finish reinventing PL/I?”. Because at an early point in the development
of PL/I, they were going to call it “FORTRAN VI”.
>
One PL/I feature still missing from Fortran is VARYING strings.

 The above line of code in not standard conforming Fortran.
 

I have not fed it through the compiler I used to use (mainframe, and I no longer have access) but that compiler conformed to Fortran77 to the extent they did not even offer integer*8.
They did have some local extensions (statement functions) but they were clearly marked as non-standard in the manuals.