> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 14:27:41 -0500
> From: Richard Shapiro <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:17:49 -0600 (CST)
> From: "David B. Serafini" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 11:30:41 -0600
> > From: Dick Hendrickson <[log in to unmask]>
> > At 04:18 PM 12/5/97 +0000, David B. Serafini wrote:
> > >BTW, why didn't F90 allow the general use of labels of the form "<name>:"?
> > >I can't see any reason for sticking with numeric labels only.
> > >
> > >-David
> > >
> > That's an easy one <grin>. In fixed source form asequence like
> > implicit integer (t)
> > ...
> > assign to to to to
> > to continue
> > toto continue
> > is ambiguous.
> Nope. I said using the form "<name>:" The colon should disambiguate.
> assign to: to to to
> No, this doesn't work either, as it's a labeled statment (albeit a broken one)!
Sort of. Unless you want to limit the length of labels to 4 characters (plus
the colon) you can't use them in fixed format. In free format spaces are
significant, so your example isn't ambiguous.
-David
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