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pklausleryesterday at 5:44 PM1 replyview on HN

Spaces don't matter in fixed-form Fortran source files, so I don't get that at all. And case doesn't matter in either source form.


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atrettelyesterday at 6:40 PM

Yes, sorry for the confusion. To be clear, the quote is directly about spaces not being significant in the source code in general, but I was commenting more about how this mindset affects variable names in practice. At least in my experience, many codes would benefit from variables names that use underscores.