------- Comment #5 from sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu
2009-08-30 18:54 -------
Subject: Re: NAMELIST input with just a comment ("&NAME ! comment \") fails
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 06:15:07PM -0000, jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org
wrote:
>
> Strictly speaking, Steve, I think you are correct.
>
> I have not finished my review of the standard. This is the first time I have
> seen namelist used like this for command line input. I suspect because it
> allows one to try many variations easily it will be a useful quick test tool.
> The embedded comment seems natural and in our code base we have a comment
> asking, should we allow '!' as a separator as an extension. We have thought
> about this issue before.
>
> I am going to give it some thinking time before doing anything here.
>
Allowing a comment within a namelist to be the only entity on
a line seems to be a logical extension to add. But, to claim
that gfortran has an error seems to be erroneous. This extension
should probably issue a warning with -std=f95 or f2003.
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41192
