From jls@uxb.liv.ac.uk Thu Feb 11 09:29:49 1993 Received: from ib.rl.ac.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA22064 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Thu, 11 Feb 1993 10:32:39 +0100 Received: from mail.liv.ac.uk by ib.rl.ac.uk (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with TCP; Thu, 11 Feb 93 09:31:44 GMT Received: from uxb.liverpool.ac.uk by mailhub.liverpool.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <10947-0@mailhub.liverpool.ac.uk>; Thu, 11 Feb 1993 09:30:13 +0000 Received: from uxb.liv.ac.uk (uxf.liv.ac.uk) by uxb.liv.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1-LIV-CSD) id AA17640; Thu, 11 Feb 93 09:29:50 GMT From: jls@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Dr.J.L.Schonfelder) Message-Id: <14779.9302110929@uxb.liv.ac.uk > Subject: absent blank ambiguity To: hpff-comments@cs.rice.edu Date: Thu, 11 Feb 93 9:29:49 GMT Cc: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk (SC22/WG5 members) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Matt Snyder wrote stuff removed... > > ALIGN TWITHEAD WITH MORON > > ALIGN T WITH EADWITHMORON > >Similar things happen with the ONTO clause in DISTRIBUTE. more stuff removed.... This indicates that in the presence of insignificant blanks the syntax of the ALIGN directive is ambiguous. F90 was carefully designed to enable the free form source(where blanks are significant) and the fixed form source (where they are not) to be as similar as possible. This meant that syntax was designed to be unambiguous regardless of the presence or absence of blanks. Until the antiquated fixed form source is removed from the language it is highly undesirable for HPF or anyone else to extend in a way that forces the use of blanks. -- Dr.J.L.Schonfelder Director, Computing Services Dept. University of Liverpool, UK Phone: +44(51)794 3716 FAX : +44(51)794 3759 email: jls@liv.ac.uk