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Re: [PATCH] PR fortran/13912: Consecutive arithmetic operators


On Mon, 24 May 2004, Steve Kargl wrote:
> First, nice work.  But a minor correction.  AFAIK, this feature has
> never been permitted by any of the Fortran standards.  The Fortran
> committees have tried to maintain a high degree of backwards compatibility.
>
> BTW, if you're interesting in obtaining a PDF copy of the Fortran
> 77 standard, then search google for ansi-x3dot-1978-Fortran77.pdf.
> Fortran 66 can be obtained with an analogous search.

Hi Steve,

Thanks.  My mistake.  I didn't mean to imply by the phrase "isn't valid
in the latest fortran standards", that this was valid previously.  Your
pointer to the recent draft of ISO/IEC 1539-1 yesterday afternoon (many
thanks) was the first fortran standard I'd had the pleasure to read, so I
didn't want to make assumptions about previous versions.

Thanks also for the f77 pointer.  For interested others the google
search is "ansi-x3dot9-1978-Fortran77.pdf".  And indeed "X = Y * -1"
isn't valid.

Roger
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