[J3] [EXTERNAL] Re: END statement

[Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101)]

As a bit of clarification to the “young ones”.    If I understand correctly, the semi-colon was not introduced until F90, and thus rarely seen in fixed-form source.  It is understandably easy to make the false inference.  (As indeed, I might have, had I thought about it before reading Malcolm’s message.)


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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [J3] END statement

Vipul Parekh asks
> does not the standard only support the semi-colon ';' terminator only with free-form source

No. Semi-colon is accepted in any source form. See 6.3.3.4 Fixed form statement termination
which states A statement may alternatively be terminated by a “;” character…

Cheers,
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..............Malcolm Cohen, NAG Oxford/Tokyo.
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