In article <eqf2k5pna25hb0v7a30p9dpcmsvt46s...@4ax.com>, Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com> wrote:
> Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > > > >2) Whitespace was not required in many places. For example, the following > >two statements (this will only make sense in a fixed-width font) are > >identical: > > > > DO 10 I = 1, 10 > > DO10I=1,10 > > More than "not required", it was "not relevant". This led to one of the > most infamous programming blunders in the early days of the space program, > when one programmer accidentially typed a period instead of a comma > resulting in the loss of a satellite: > > DO 10 I = 1. 10 > > What this actually does is store the floating point value "1.1" in a new > variable called "DO10I". 1.1 or 1.01? There were some places where a blank was equivalent to a zero in a number. I don't remember if this was one of them. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
