(j3.2006) READ unit ambiguity

[Bill Long]

On 3/2/12 1:05 AM, Van Snyder wrote:
> Malcolm Cohen wrote:
>>> In a new post, Ian Harvey
>>
>> Who is this guy? I hope you've invited him to join the committee!
>>
>>> points out that Note 3.7 is
>>> no longer true. We can now have
>>>
>>> 10 .op. p = x
>>>
>>> where 10 can be a label or a left operand.
>>
>> Now this one is very easily fixed - just delete free-form source and
>> the problem goes away.
>
> I obviously wasn't thinking of this case, but I did suggest, sometime
> prior to 1986, that both statement labels and construct labels ought to
> be followed by a colon in free form.

A bit too late for that.  However, we could (somewhat artificially) 
disallow a statement number on a statement that looked like this. 
Considering that statement numbers rarely show up in newer codes, I 
would not expect much problem with backward compatibility.

Cheers,
Bill


>
>> Cheers,
>
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