[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/7/2017 9:40 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <ojmeth$39c$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> fixed format
> 
>     OK, I'm curious, why would you consider DCL fixed format?
> 
>     IMHO, ANSI Fortran pre Fortran-90 is fixed format because you need
>     to use certain columns in certain ways.  Never saw that in DCL.

Maybe wrong term.

It does not require certain positions, but line breaks have
significance.

You don't stuff multiple statements in a single line and you need
continuation character to split statement over multiple lines.

And there are some rare cases where position matters
(dollar in pos 1 or pos 2 as input).

Arne