On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Barry Smith wrote: > > PETSc users, > > We've always been very conservative in PETSc to keep almost all our > Fortran examples in a format that works with classic FORTRAN 77 constructs: > fixed line format, (72 character limit) and no use of ; to separate > operations on the same line, etc. > > Is it time to forgo these constructs and use more modern Fortran > conventions in all our examples? > > Any feedback is appreciated > > Barry > > Note: it would continue to be possible to use PETSc in the FORTRAN 77 style, > this is just a question about updating the examples.
Well - if we don't have examples in the "FORTRAN 77 style" - then that mode won't get tested - and users code [that might use this mode] are likely to break.. [due to changes in includes..] Satish
