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Re: curiosity about compiler phases

From scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Subject Re: curiosity about compiler phases
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
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Date 2019-11-23 15:49 +0000

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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>On 23/11/2019 01:47, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Where a language has line continuation to split source across multiple
>>> lines, then it is highly unusual to allow that split in the middle of
>>> a token.
>> 
>> It's a comparatively rare feature altogether, but I don't think the
>> balance between the two ways of doing it it quite as dramatic as you
>> suggest.  In C, C++ and Fortran, line continuations are simply literal
>> line pasting,
>
>I couldn't get that behaviour using the & line-continuation of modern 
>Fortran; I couldn't use it to split a keyword.

There are well over 100 different fortran compilers historically.  And
you checked one.  On a windows box.   From that you draw a conclusion.

Do you see the flaw in your logic?

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curiosity about compiler phases Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-11-07 05:28 -0800
  Re: curiosity about compiler phases Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> - 2019-11-22 19:25 +0000
  Re: curiosity about compiler phases "A. K." <minforth@arcor.de> - 2019-11-22 12:19 -0800
  Re: curiosity about compiler phases Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-22 22:22 +0000
    Typo? (Was: curiosity about compiler phases) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-11-22 22:34 +0000
      Re: Typo? (Was: curiosity about compiler phases) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-22 23:49 +0000
        Re: Typo? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-11-22 19:26 -0700
    Re: curiosity about compiler phases scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-11-22 23:12 +0000
      Re: curiosity about compiler phases Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-23 00:06 +0000
        Re: curiosity about compiler phases Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-11-22 20:34 -0500
        Re: curiosity about compiler phases Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-23 01:47 +0000
          Re: curiosity about compiler phases Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-11-22 21:21 -0500
            Re: curiosity about compiler phases Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-24 03:26 +0000
              Re: curiosity about compiler phases Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-24 11:29 +0000
                Re: curiosity about compiler phases Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-24 16:49 +0000
          Re: curiosity about compiler phases Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-23 12:21 +0000
            Re: curiosity about compiler phases Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-11-23 10:08 -0500
            Re: curiosity about compiler phases scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-11-23 15:49 +0000
              Re: curiosity about compiler phases Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-23 16:21 +0000
                Re: curiosity about compiler phases Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-11-24 03:37 +0000
                Re: curiosity about compiler phases Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-24 11:25 +0000
                Re: curiosity about compiler phases Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-25 14:06 +0000
    Re: curiosity about compiler phases Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-11-22 21:25 -0800
      Beyond our pay grade (Was: curiosity about compiler phases) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2019-11-23 07:43 +0000
    Re: curiosity about compiler phases Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-11-23 06:28 -0800
      Re: curiosity about compiler phases Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-11-23 06:39 -0800
      Re: curiosity about compiler phases Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2019-11-23 09:46 -0500
        Re: curiosity about compiler phases Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2019-11-23 10:16 -0500
      Re: curiosity about compiler phases Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-11-23 16:13 +0000
        Re: curiosity about compiler phases Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-11-25 03:24 -0800
  Re: curiosity about compiler phases Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2019-11-23 08:43 +0100

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