On Jan 2, 10:29 am, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > > To address your question more directly, here's a couple of ways Fortran > treated whitespace which would surprise the current crop of > Java/PHP/Python/Ruby programmers: > > 1) Line numbers (i.e. the things you could GOTO to) were in column 2-7 > (column 1 was reserved for a comment indicator). This is not quite > significant whitespace, it's more like significant indentation.
That would also surprise former FORTRAN programmers (who rarely referred to the language as "Fortran"). A comment was signified by a C in col 1. Otherwise cols 1-5 were used for statement labels (the things you could GOTO), col 6 for a statement continuation indicator, cols 7-72 for statement text, and cols 73-80 for card sequence numbers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list