Fortran - Re: PL/I FUNCTIONS ARE GENERIC (was UPPERCASE)

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Re: PL/I FUNCTIONS ARE GENERIC (was UPPERCASE)

robin

2005-09-15, 9:56 pm

David Frank wrote in message <2TAVe.11099$9i4.125@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
>I "improved" my translate function to combine the incode, outcode into a
>codes(2) array input.
>e.g. write (*,*) Translate ('abc', ['abc','ABC'] ) outputs ABC

What Frank doesn't comprehend - and still doesn't - is that PL/I's
string-handling functions are generic.

He also doesn't grasp the fact that PL/I's TRANSLATE'is about
100 times faster that his Fortran translate code.

> FUNCTION Translate(s1,codes) RESULT (s2)
....

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