I haven’t use fixed-form in a long time, but isn’t free-form a superset of fixed-form? Are there situation where a fixed form code cannot be compiled as free form source code?
Blaise On Nov 7, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Jed Brown <jedbr...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > Barry Smith <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> writes: >> Is there any reason we cannot force everyone to use >> free-form. Aside from the fact that they are FORTRAN programmers >> and will never change their way. > > I don't know. I don't imagine Nek is the only fixed-form Fortran still > in existence. -- Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA Tel. +1 (225) 578 1612, Fax +1 (225) 578 4276 http://www.math.lsu.edu/~bourdin