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Article #305Re: Question on "Parameter" statement; and a new question!
From: Peter S. Shenkin
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1986 01:47
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1986 01:47
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In article <utah-cs.3651> donn@utah-cs.UUCP (Donn Seeley) writes:
>Peter Shenkin asks why
>
> parameter (size = 10)
> character*size string
>
>doesn't work.
> .....
> What was intended was probably:
> parameter (size = 10)
> character*(size) string
>
>My reading of the standard indicates that only integer constants (and
>not symbolic names of integer constants) may appear naked as length
>specifications.....
>
>ISNTFORTRANWONDERFUL,
>
>Donn Seeley University of Utah CS Dept donn@utah-cs.arpa
>40 46' 6"N 111 50' 34"W (801) 581-5668 decvax!utah-cs!donn
OK, so I tried it the way you wrote it. Now it runs just fine under VMS,
but under ULTRIX (presumably the 4.2bsd f77 compiler) it bombs out, but
only because it thinks "size" is a REAL; "isize" works just fine. So a
new question: I always thought PARAMETER definitions were not subject to
the IMPLICIT rules; VMS Fortran behaves according to my preconception, at
least in this example. So am I wrong, or is this YAf77B* ?
Peter S. Shenkin, Columbia Univ. Biol. Sciences, NY, NY
{philabs,rna}!cubsvax!peters cubsvax!peters@columbia.ARPA
* (Yet Another f77 Bug.)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cubsvax.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!cmcl2!rna!cubsvax!peters From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin) Newsgroups: net.lang.f77 Subject: Re: Question on "Parameter" statement; and a new question! Message-ID: <413@cubsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 20:47:18 EST Article-I.D.: cubsvax.413 Posted: Wed Jan 29 20:47:18 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Feb-86 03:27:24 EST References: <410@cubsvax.UUCP> <utah-cs.3651> Reply-To: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin) Organization: Columbia Univ. Bio. CG Fac., NY Lines: 32