Re: Emacs and GFortran

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > There is still an off-by-one error; we number the first column as 1 
 > rather than 0.  Given that there's a very strong tradition in Fortran of 
 > numbering columns starting with 1, and that off-by-one errors in column 
 > location are within the noise level of locating things (given that 
 > nearly all errors are several columns wide), I think it makes more sense 
 > overall to keep it the way it currently is.

I see now this is the right way anyway (from "Formatting Error Messages"
in standards.info):

  Line numbers should start from 1 at the beginning of the file, and
  column numbers should start from 1 at the beginning of the line.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob