Re: basic BASIC question

On 2025-01-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

>
Fortran got some other rather unique usages
of logicals:
>
$ type morelogfun.for
       program morelogfun
       logical*1 a(12)
       data a/1hH,1he,1hl,1hl,1ho,1h ,1hw,1ho,1hr,1hl,1hd,1h!/
       integer*4 i
       write(*,*) (a(i),i=1,12)
       write(*,'(1x,12a1)') (a(i),i=1,12)
       end
$ for morelogfun

DEC Fortran still allows Hollerith constants without having to specify
a compiler option to enable them ?

For people who do not know historical Fortran, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith_constant

Hollerith constants have been removed from the current Fortran language
standards (and rightly so).

$ lin morelogfun
$ run morelogfun
F T F F T F T T F F F T
Hello world!
>

Simon.

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