I thought that the reason brackets [] and braces {} were not part of the
Fortran character set was out of consideration for users of non-English
keyboards, where these keys tend to be replaced by letters with accents.
On the other hand continental users of C and other languages where
brackets/braces are unavoidable seem to manage, so maybe this is no longer
an issue? Any comments from the continent?
My own feeling is that if [] were to be allowed in Fortran, the best use
for them would be around array subscripts, making it much easier to
distinguish array references from function calls.
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Clive Page,
Dept of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Leicester.
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