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No, you get all 7 spaces for the statement number; live it up a little! Don't know if it's still the case, but in FORTRAN IV you don't need spaces between keyw
by drfuchs 7y ago
No, you get all 7 spaces for the statement number; live it up a little!
Don't know if it's still the case, but in FORTRAN IV you don't need spaces between keywords and variable names. So when the compiler sees "FORI=2" it has to look still further ahead to decide if this is a for-loop (FORI=2TO9DO) or an assignment to a variable named FORI. Decidedly not a context-free grammar; you can't even figure out the tokens without the ad-hoc parser getting involved.