PARAMETER statement

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Jan 13 2010, Tobias Schlüter wrote:
>
>Thank deity that (standard) Fortran didn't go the route of making the 
>length of identifiers a factor in determining whether they have keywords 
>embedded! :)

Quite.  I know a fair number of people who were involved in Fortran 90,
and they would have gibbered just as much as we do at the proposal!

>I thought about the 6 character restriction, but figured that the 
>example still highlights how this extension breaks Fortran's syntax 
>badly enough to make supporting it undesirable, and therefore deemed it 
>worth showing.  Thanks for pointing out the gap in my argument, though.

Absolutely.  This is an extension that should positively NOT be added!
There were several of such things in VAX Fortran - TAB format being
another ....

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.