On 11/02/2016 04:47 PM, Fritz Reese wrote:
All,Another quirk of legacy compilers is their syntax for PARAMETER statements. Such statements are similar to standard PARAMETER statements but lack parentheses following the PARAMETER keyword. There is a good reason the standard doesn't support this - because the statement becomes ambiguous with assignment statements in fixed form. Consider the following: parameter pi = 3.14d0 In fixed form, spaces are ignored so in standard Fortran the above looks like an assignment to the variable "parameterpi". In legacy compilers, the above is instead interpreted as parameter (pi = 3.14d0) which of course declares the variable 'pi' to be a parameter with the value 3.14.
Please test this with a program that has a *variable* that's named PARAMETER.
I have encountered Fortran compilers in the past that couldn't cope with it (I won't name names).
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