[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