gfortran: Why does this fail to compile?

[Mark Hounschell]

On 01/22/2013 09:37 AM, Arjen Markus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a slight refinement on my remark: we may read "X1", but the compiler
> probably interprets this as X, followed by the next format group that
> begins with
> a 1 - commas are not required. Hence it has a very good reason to report
> the closing parenthesis as the erroneous part. It simply is not the way a
> human being would parse the format.
>

You have some very good eyes, and I now understand. Thank you.

Regards
Mark