[Shootout-list] Fortran comment lines with leading "!" are counted
Brent Fulgham
bfulg@pacbell.net
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:41:54 -0800 (PST)
--- Vivek Rao <f95shoot@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A line of Fortran beginning with a "!" is a comment,
> and such lines should not contribute to the LOC
> measure. This rule is not being applied, and the LOC
> measures for Fortran are thus inflated and
> misleading. For example, LOC for ackermann (Fortran)
> should be 20, not 39.
Ahhh....
The original shootout did not support Fortran. I now
realize that I did not modify the 'loc' program to
handle Fortran properly, causing the problem you see.
I'll fix it and rerun the loc results.
Thanks,
-Brent