(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5163) [ukfortran] [ Draft corrigendum 3]

[Bill Long]

On 12/21/13 8:12 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
> 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 ]


I would not be opposed to moving most of 5.4 into the obsolescent 
column.   The only ones that are not redundant and replaced by better 
alternatives are PRIVATE/PUBLIC/SAVE with no entities specified, and 
ASYNCHRONOUS/VOLATILE that can be used in blocks to override the host 
declaration.  DATA is a separate situation because of the limit on 
continuation lines.


Cheers,
Bill



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