(j3.2006) namelist and listdirected for DT I/O difference

[Van Snyder]

Just a SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess):

We really do intend for list directed output to work together with
defined I/O, so the list directed one should be more like the namelist
one.

Van

On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 18:38 -0700, dick.hendrickson at att.net wrote:
> Looking at the listdirected and namelist output requirements there is
> a surprising (to me) difference.  In 09-007r3, for listdirected output
> it says (page 266)
> "13 Except for continuation of delimited character sequences, each
> output record begins with a blank character."
> 
> but on page 270, for namelist output it says
> "25 5 Except for new records created by explicit formatting within a
> defined output procedure or by continuation of delimited character
> sequences, each output record begins with a blank character."
> 
> Why the difference?
> 
> Dick Hendrickson