Beliavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > I've taught "numerical computing" in university, and I would have had to > > fail anybody who'd misunderstood floating-point computations badly > > enough to try that "+=step" idea (including, sigh, the coders of several > > Fortran compilers who were popular at that time). > > You may be referring to the Fortran DO loop with a REAL loop variable, > for example > > do x=1.5,3.5,0.5 > print*,x > end do > > This was part of standard Fortran 77, so one should blame the > standards committee, not the compiler writers. Very few features of
I was thinking of "Fortran IV" aka Fortran '66, where as I recall per the standard you were _supposed_ to only use integers in a DO, but several compilers supplied real loop variables as an extension, and got its implementation wrong. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
