[Info-vax] Architecture specific code in VMS Fortran

[John Reagan]

"Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
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> In article <MI-dnVoiofumFRXTnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John Reagan" 
> <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
>>
>> and unlike C, the %IF/%ELIF/%ELSE/%ENDIF directives do not have to start 
>> on
>> column 1.  It is a token-based system, not a line based system.
>
>   It's been a great many long years since the C preprocessor required
>   # directives to start in column 1.  For example, the following is
>   valid:
>

My bad.  Yes you are correct.  I was trying to point out that the Pascal 
form isn't line based but token based (looks close to the BLISS form of 
%if).  The benefits are more obvious in BLISS since you can put them into 
macros which Pascal doesn't have.

x := %if compile-time-expression %then 1 %else 0 %endif ;

John