(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5161) [ukfortran] [ Draft corrigendum 3]

[Van Snyder]

On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 09:48 +0900, Malcolm Cohen wrote:
> I (and others) disagree with your assertion that
>    REAL x(*)
>    PARAMETER(x = [ 1,2,3,4,5 ])
> is unreasonable and should never be allowed.  Disallowing this would
> break 
> one of our basic design rules for the BNF of declarations, which is
> that one 
> can specify attributes independently.  Yes it is a smaller edit to
> the 
> standard, and would not remove significant functionality ... but then 
> deleting the PARAMETER statement entirely would not remove
> significant 
> functionality!

To repair the "problem" we would also need to delete the DIMENSION
statement, so one could not do

  dimension X(*)
  real, parameter :: X = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]