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[Bug fortran/39670] dollar sign in entities is not recognized when it is first symbol
- From: "anickol at yahoo dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 7 Apr 2009 08:59:33 -0000
- Subject: [Bug fortran/39670] dollar sign in entities is not recognized when it is first symbol
- References: <bug-39670-17540@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
- Reply-to: gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org
------- Comment #2 from anickol at yahoo dot com 2009-04-07 08:59 -------
As I already said, I have code, being compiled with MS Fortran, that has
a lot of variable names starting with $. MS Fortran allows it.
My personal opinion is that the Fortran compiler's primary use is support
of the legacy code. That means that the implementation of any extension
or even strange behaviour of existing compilers could be useful and will
save hours of hard work. Forcing standards on existing code is illogical.
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