Re: [Plplot-general] Font setting parameters in Fortran90.

[Arjen M. <Arj...@de...>]

Hi Alan, James,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...]
>
> Of course, the important question s why we support two styles in that sed script?  I
> am sure we did that deliberately with the motivation of wanting to support a wide
> range of Fortran compilers.  In other words we were worried that some of them might
> complain about
>
> integer, parameter :: PL_FCI_SANS = z'0'
>
...
>
> @Arjen: are we being too cautious here?  I note from
> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Fortran2003 that gfortran already has almost complete support
> for Fortran 2003 (and certainly the general BOZ support), and I wonder if other
> fortran compilers are typically also compliant with Fortran 2003, at least to the extent
> of general support for integer parameter style above for BOZ constants?
>

I just checked the overview regularly provided by the ACS Fortran Forum about the
support for the features in the various standards by 11 different Fortran compilers and
binary, octal and hexadecimal constants have been supported for quite some time now
by these compilers. While I am not entirely sure this entry extends to the use in PARAMETER
statements, I think we can safely assume that this is the case.

My suggestion therefore is that we adjust the code and use the "integer, parameter" form
exclusively.

Should some one come up and complain about this, we will of course have to consider that
issue, but constants should be constants in my opinion.

Regards,

Arjen
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