| Andrew Swallow 2006-10-30, 7:15 pm |
| Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj wrote:
> Andrew Swallow wrote:
>
> 80A1 :) Man can you think of a way to pessimise the program some
> more? Probably you'd also recommend
> DIMENSION IA(80)
> 1 READ 100,(IA(I),I=1,80)
> 100 FORMAT(80A1)
> etc. :)
> rather than READ 100,IA :), or choosing a variable type
> that would hold the largest number of characters and use an array
> of those type variables. :)
Anything over A2 was not machine independent. A1 allowed the integer
array to pretend to be a string variable.
> That was no TRICK. It is a perfectly valid use of the language
> definition. The ability to read into the hollerith item of a FORMAT
> statement was provided for flexible headings.
> Then are you against execution time assembling of FORMAT statements
> as well? OR even reading in FORMAT statements as was a common
> technique in the BMD and other statistical package programs?
>
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