On Nov 7, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes: > >> For many years we tried to make all Fortran examples except one or two be >> very backwards compatible, no free form etc etc. >> >> Should we switch and now just make PETSc by default use modern approaches? >> freeform with no continuation characters? > > I'm in favor of converting the examples, or all but one or two. > > What about the headers? We can only convert those if _everyone_ uses > free-form, otherwise we're excluding someone. So I think we have to > keep those in obtuse hybrid format (free-form continuation after column > 72 so fixed-form doesn't read it, etc).
Yuck. 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. Barry
