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From: clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Clement Pellerin)
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Subject: Re: Reasons for keeping Ada
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Date: 21 Feb 90 00:40:32 GMT
References: <19409@grebyn.com> <6175@ae.sei.cmu.edu> <5417@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <5417@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> kassover@control.crd.ge.com (David Kassover) writes:
>		DO 100 I = 1.100
>		   ...
>	100	CONTINUE
>This compiled, and the loop merrily executed only once.

because Fortran discards spaces.  The do statement is in fact an assignment
statement.  You can check it out by printing the value of DO100I before
line 100.  No wonder Fortran is not context free!
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