Re: PR fortran/19269 (partial fix): Lengths of reshaped arrays

[Richard E Maine <Richard dot Maine at nasa dot gov>]

On Sep 6, 2005, at 2:37 PM, Tobias Schlüter wrote:

> For PARAMETERs the characters may have different length,

Not in the standard. In fact, the standard doesn't have much in the way 
of special cases for PARAMETERS. Mostly they fall under the general 
category of initialization expressions, which don't allow this. The 
only thing I can think of that is special for PARAMETERS is the way 
that length=* can "pick up" the length from the expression, but that 
doesn't mean that the expression can include array constructors that 
have ragged lengths.

If one were to do an extension restricted to initialization 
expressions, that would certainly avoid the worst of the complications 
(no user functions, everything determinable at compile time). I'd just 
expect such an extension with such a restriction to generate as many 
questions as answers.

I'm not recommending such an extension - just commenting about the 
possibility.

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