(j3.2006) Interp lurking in Fortran Forum
Van Snyder
Van.Snyder
Fri Dec 17 16:57:35 EST 2010
There's an interp request lurking on page 16 of December Fortran Forum:
There is some ambiguity as to what the term "unreferenced"
means. The relevant clause of the ISO standard [Overby means
F95] (11.3.2) states: "Two or more accessible entities, other
than generic interfaces, may have the same name only if the name
is not used to refer to an entity in the scoping unit." The
question us what "refer to" means. Specifically, (1) is USE M,
X => A, X => B legal if the name X is never actually used, and
(2) if M contains a module entity named X, should USE M, X=>A, X
=>B be permitted (in which case the local name X would
presumably shadow the module entity X)? IBM XL Fortran 12.1,
GNU Fortran 4.4.2, PGI Fortran 10.0, and Intel Fortran 10.1 all
exhibit different behaviors.
A similar question pertains to F08 11.2.2p8
Two or more accessible entities, other than generic interfaces
or defined operators, may have the same local identifier only if
the identifier is not used.
Is it obvious what this means, or should we process an interp?
More information about the J3
mailing list