[petsc-dev] make all PETSc Fortran examples modern freeform?

[Barry Smith]

On Nov 7, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
>>   For many years we tried to make all Fortran examples except one or two be very backwards compatible, no free form etc etc.
>> 
>>   Should we switch and now just make PETSc by default use modern approaches? freeform with no continuation characters?
> 
> I'm in favor of converting the examples, or all but one or two.
> 
> What about the headers?  We can only convert those if _everyone_ uses
> free-form, otherwise we're excluding someone.  So I think we have to
> keep those in obtuse hybrid format (free-form continuation after column
> 72 so fixed-form doesn't read it, etc).

  Yuck.

   Is there any reason we cannot force everyone to use free-form. Aside from the fact that they are FORTRAN programmers and will never change their way.

   Barry