2016-02-18 17:48 GMT+02:00 Don Simons <[email protected]>: > Dirk Laurie wrote >> It means approximately this (in pseudo-Python pseudocode): >> >> try: read(10,'(a)')line >> catch(EOF): goto 999 >> >> 999 is 'continue' so it goes on and reads again, which it is not allowed to >> do. > > I disagree. I've used "continue" hundreds of times, with the > understanding that it doesn't do anything except act as a placeholder. > Specifically, it does not re-execute the read statement.
I've only ever used it as the last statement in a DO loop, but of course you must be right. I last wrote Fortran full-time in about 1978. :-) ------------------------------- [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
