why i

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue May 25 22:54:17 EDT 2004


Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 	However, FORTRAN had the "Indian" <G> {my mnemonic for the
> range} -- the default for undeclared variables beginning in the range I
> .. N is INTEGER. A .. H, O .. Z are REAL/FLOAT.

Hence the well-known saying, "GOD is REAL, unless
declared INTEGER."

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg




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