Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 04/03/2025 04:02, c186282 wrote:

On 3/3/25 4:31 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> 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.
Fortunately  you can explicitly  line wrap and the compiler don't care.
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I would usually do one argument per line at that point.

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If you're passing 60 arguments, you are not doing it right.

    It's easy to kinda drift into that during development, you
   always think of ONE more thing you need to pass. However
   stage two, you put all that crap in a struct and pass one
   pointer. Each function can extract what it needs from
   that struct and ignore the rest.

As I pointed out, sprintf and fprintf dont take structure pointers as an argument.
if you have never programmed SQL  or CSV type data, you wouldnt understand.
An SQL insert or update statement consists (for safety) in a series of
  'update[insert into] table 'hogwash' set blah = 'x', poo = 'y' ....[where id=BigNum]'
statements...
That string needs to be constructed. You do not want to break it down into 60  short strings and 60 database accesses
In this particular application I don't need structures anyway - the variables are all global.
COBOL style.
Precisely to avoid having to pass them around on the stack.
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