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In article <413@cubsvax.UUCP> peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin) writes:
>In article <utah-cs.3651> donn@utah-cs.UUCP (Donn Seeley) writes:
>>Peter Shenkin asks why
>>
>>	parameter (size = 10)
>>	character*size string
>
>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
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Peter,
	I believe that even Parameter arguments must be previously,
or implicitly declared.  I bet if you put the statement 
IMPLICIT LOGICAL(a,z)
before your parameter statement the compiler wouldnt like any of them.
Actually this is a good idea (implicit something) maybe using complex
would be even better, it makes misspellings etc easier to find, and
is something I use in all of my progs. notice however it must appear
in every subroutine and function.  So to recap try
	   implicit complex(orlogical)(a,z)
	   integer size
	   parameter (size = 10)
	   etc...
hope this helps
(and is right)
dave schuh
uwisc madison 
physics and geophysics depts.
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