[comp.lang.fortran] Fortran comments

yding@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Yijun Ding ) (06/27/91)

I would like to use the following style to comment Fortran file:

	a=1    ! Theis is a comment

i.e., by using '!' character. Is this standard in Fortran statement?
Your answer is appreciated -- Yijun Ding

burley@pogo.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Craig Burley) (06/30/91)

In article <145298@unix.cis.pitt.edu> yding@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Yijun Ding ) writes:

   I would like to use the following style to comment Fortran file:

	   a=1    ! Theis is a comment

   i.e., by using '!' character. Is this standard in Fortran statement?

Not in ANSI standard FORTRAN 77.  Many vendors support it, however, and/or
use of '/*' (with or without a terminating '*/' -- I don't remember seeing
any implementations that supported a terminating '*/', however, but I suspect
there are some) as a comment delimiter.
--

James Craig Burley, Software Craftsperson    burley@gnu.ai.mit.edu