(j3.2006) another example of a forward reference

[Malcolm Cohen]

<<<
Ian Harvey posted an article on comp.lang.fortran
in which he asserts that the Fortran standards
allow an array constructor to include a <type-spec>
that is the name of a derived type that is defined
after the occurrence of the array constructor.
>>>

An interesting conceit, that published standards never have errrors or 
omissions.

Van Snyder remarks:
<<<
Or, maybe there isn't a problem, since the type constructor also isn't
constrained to refer to a previously-defined type.
>>>

It is so required, at [81:1].  This is where our habit of inserting notes into 
the middle of normative text has paid dividends in unreadability.

Cheers,
-- 
................................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.