(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5508) [ukfortran] Assignment to ero-sized strings and arrays

Van Snyder Van.Snyder
Tue May 26 21:07:42 EDT 2015


On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 09:27 +0900, Malcolm Cohen wrote:
> >This seems to need an interp.
> 
> I disagree.  There is no doubt as to the intention.  No-one is getting this 
> wrong.  Walt had this discussion with Robert Corbett earlier, and it can be read 
> (admittedly with difficulty) as we obviously intended.
> 
> It's certainly a candidate for editorial improvement sometime.  Though since 
> there are newer features with confusing wording, or even straight-out technical 
> defects, I would not rate this as high priority.  It's much more important to 
> get right the things that vendors and users are going to be reading and trying 
> to understand.

Can we at least move the last sentence of 7.2.1.3p1 somewhere after
7.2.1.3p3?

> Cheers,





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