Fortran - Re: Count Items challenge

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Re: Count Items challenge

robin

2005-08-24, 3:57 am

David Frank wrote in message ...
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>"gerard46" <gerard46@rtt.net> wrote in message
>news:HbKdnW5vMelMOZreRVn-gQ@onvoy.com...
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>2 TALLY calls = 2 scans <GEESH>
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> No sense in duplicating efforts. Note
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>We are talking count of # executable statements.
>If you place your tally statement into a PL/I function called
>Count_items(line)
>you have as many or more support statements as I do..

No need to because the PL/I stament is simple.

And even if it *were* to be used so often that it might
be desirable to encapsulate it, it could be set up
as a macro call.
And that produices just ONE executable statement.

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