more on TRUE and FALSE (side-comment)

Ken Lerman lerman at stpstn.UUCP
Sat Sep 29 23:19:55 AEST 1990


In article <18306 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
[...]
->
->I'm reminded of a note in a Fortran manual: if you find you've already punched
->your program and misspelled the variable CHIEF as CHEIF on a lot of the cards,
->you can fix it with EQUIVALENCE(CHEIF,CHIEF).
->
->Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl at kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint
->________
[...]

Ugh, a ghastly solution.  The right way is to get some scotch (brand)
tape and some punchings and tape the "bits" back in the holes.  (You
may laugh, but I've seen people actually do this.  With binary
(encoded) cards, no less.)

Ken



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