[petsc-users] Question regarding updating PETSc Fortran examples to embrace post F77 constructs

[Satish Balay]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2016, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
>    PETSc users,
> 
>     We've always been very conservative in PETSc to keep almost all our Fortran examples in a format that works with classic FORTRAN 77 constructs: fixed line format, (72 character limit) and no use of ; to separate operations on the same line, etc. 
> 
>    Is it time to forgo these constructs and use more modern Fortran conventions in all our examples?
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>     Any feedback is appreciated
> 
>     Barry
> 
> Note: it would continue to be possible to use PETSc in the FORTRAN 77 style, this is just a question about updating the examples.

Well - if we don't have examples in the "FORTRAN 77 style" - then that
mode won't get tested - and users code [that might use this mode] are
likely to break.. [due to changes in includes..]

Satish