[J3] (SC22WG5.6266) Fortran 90 and BOZ literals

[Robert Corbett]

My printed copy of the ANSI
Fortran 90 standard shows
the single quote form of each
BOZ constant followed by the
double quote form.  I suspect
you are either having
rendering problems, or you
are working from a bad PDF
file.

Bob Corbett

> On Aug 10, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Steve Lionel via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> I am working on a "Doctor Fortran" post about BOZ constants, and ran across something very odd in Fortran 90:
> 
> 
> R408 binary-constant is B ’ digit [ digit ] ... ’
>                      or B
> Constraint: digit must have one of the values 0 or 1.
> 
> R409 octal-constant is O ’ digit [ digit ] ... ’
>                     or O
> Constraint: digit must have one of the values 0 through 7.
> 
> R410 hex-constant is Z ’ hex-digit [ hex-digit ] ... ’
>                   or Z
> 
> The text never explains what a bare B, O or Z means. This is gone in Fortran 95 and I didn't see any mention of it in the three Fortran 90 corrigenda. What was this supposed to be? (If you get this on the J3 list, please reply to the WG5 list - thanks.)
> 
> Steve
>