Re: Parsing Fortran, was Programming language and IDE design

(snip, I wrote)


> Because of this complication, WATFIV, at least the version I used,
> disallowed 'FORMAT(' as the first seven characters of a statement that
> wasn't a FORMAT statement. That is, no assignment to elements of an
> array named FORMAT. (I believe WATFIV allows multiple assignment, so
> there would have been a way to get around it.)


(snip)


> [I found that H descriptors were easy to handle, just pull them out in a
> prepass. The problem was assignments that look like format statements:


> FORMAT(A5,I3,I5) = 42


> WATFIV was a student compiler and probably concluded that any student
> who wrote code like that deserved to fail. -John]


But arrays named FORMAT are allowed everywhere else, except at the left
side of an assignment. Functions named FORMAT are also allowed.


And at least once, (not with WATFIV) I used it as the name of a run-time
format specified, which was required to be an array.


-- glen

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