Re: whole number constants

Thomas Koenig wrote:
(snip)

> From a Xerox Fortran manual:

> # The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to
constants;
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Which reminds me too much of the Fortran 66 requirement that I/O
list items be variables.  If you wanted to write a constant
with unformatted I/O, the only way was with a variable with the
appropriate value.   I wouldn't say it was the primary use,
but way too often.

-- glen