On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:02 -0500, Bill Long wrote: > You can have the generic name the same as one of the specific names. > 12.4.3.4.1 para 3 (page 279) of the CD. Hmmm, this goes back to F90. I must have become convinced that this was prohibited by having an early compiler with a bug in it, and then I never bothered to check the standard. Van