> In the continuing saga of the exploration of dark corners in the > Fortran standard: > > Is the following standard conforming? Statically checking it, it looks OK to me, and the Compaq compiler accept it, so my guess is that it is OK. Note that the PUBLIC is nice for clarity, but superfluous. You ARE making use of implicit typing, though---put in some "IMPLICIT NONE"s. (I realise, of course, that this is just an example and you might have proper declarations in the real code.) -- Phillip Helbig Email .............. [log in to unmask] Kapteyn Instituut Email ................. [log in to unmask] Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Tel. ................... +31 50 363 6647 Postbus 800 Fax .................... +31 50 363 6100 NL-9700 AV Groningen Web ... http://www.astro.rug.nl/~helbig/ My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer. <A HREF=" http://gladia.astro.rug.nl:8000/helbig/hire/hire.html ">HIRE ME!</A> Reward: one month of salary (yours or mine---take your pick)! %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%