Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 3/3/25 3:17 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/03/2025 19:19, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:24:04 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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On 03/03/2025 10:05, Niklas Karlsson wrote:

Some would probably get on your case for being profligate with vertical
space... but honestly, it doesn't much matter with the kind of screen
real estate we have these days. I do agree that your style has
readability benefits.

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Yes. Back in the day when I debugged with 80 column dot matrix
printouts, it got messy.
To day with collapsible blocks on a gui it's a lot easier

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I still prefer statements that don't exceed 80 columns.

So do I but it gets unavoidable when toy are passing sixty plus variables to a function.

   Ummm ... THAT nasty ... create a struct and pass one
   pointer instead  :-)

Fortunately  you can explicitly  line wrap and the compiler don't care.

   Well, USUALLY, these days .......