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diff --git a/static/unix-v10/man1/efl.1 b/static/unix-v10/man1/efl.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0bb15834 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/unix-v10/man1/efl.1 @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +.TH EFL 1 +.SH NAME +efl \- extended Fortran language preprocessor +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B efl +[ +.I option ... +] +[ +.I filename ... +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Efl +compiles a program written in the EFL language into clean Fortran. +.I Efl +provides the same control flow constructs as does Ratfor (1), +which are essentially identical to those in C: +.TP +statement grouping with braces; +decision-making with if, if-else, and switch-case; +while, +for, +Fortran do, +repeat, +and repeat...until loops; +multi-level break and next. +In addition, EFL has C-like data structures, +and more uniform and convenient input/output syntax, +generic functions. +EFL also provides +some syntactic sugar to make programs easier to read and write: +.TP +free form input: +multiple statements/line; automatic continuation +statement label names (not just numbers), +.TP +comments: +# this is a comment +.TP +translation of relationals: +>, >=, etc., become .GT., .GE., etc. +.TP +return (expression) +returns expression to caller from function +.TP +define: +define name replacement +.TP +include: +include filename +.PP +.fi +The Efl command option +.B \-w +suppresses warning messages. +The option +.B \-C +causes comments to be copied through to the Fortran output (default); +.B \-# +prevents comments from being copied through. +If a command argument contains an embedded equal sign, +that argument is treated as if it had appeared in an +.B option +statement at the beginning of the program. +.I Efl +is best used with +.IR f77 (1). +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IR f77 (1), +.IR ratfor (1). +.br +S. I. Feldman, +.IR "The Programming Language EFL", +Bell Labs Computing Science Technical Report #78. |
