[Info-vax] Fortran

[Scott Dorsey]

Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
>Removing octal constant support was a bit strange unless there's
>something I am not understanding. Like you, I don't really see any
>reason why it could not have been left in place. This is different
>from the removal of Hollerith support where the removal of Hollerith
>support brings distinct safety benefits.

Hmm... could this possibly be due to a change in variable naming rules, that 
what previously had been valid octal constants were now valid variable
names?

And why hasn't someone written a parser to replace Hollerith fields with
modern strings to make existing code compliant without too much pain?
--scott

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