Phillip Helbig wrote in reply to Anthony Stone):
>> I find that the Sun F90 compiler flags the following as an error:
>> (WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/21 FORTRAN 90 2.0)
>>
>> call report("First part of a particularly long error"// &
>> " message, continued onto a second line")
>>
>> and also this:
>>
>> call report("First part of a particularly long error" &
>> //" message, continued onto a second line")
>>
>> These are both legitimate, aren't they?
>
>I think so.
>
I, too think these should be legal.
>> The following does work:
>>
>> call report("First part of a particularly long error &
>> &message, continued onto a second line")
>>
>> but sometimes I want to concatenate a function result with a fixed
>> string, and the concatenation operator is the natural point at which
>> to break the line.
>
>Right.
This is an F90 way of making both the above legal without concatenation of
strings. Suggest you speak to Sun compiler support. (Double quotes are F90
anyway.)
>All three work with DEC AXPVMS FORTRAN V7.2-1 (Compaq's F95 compiler
>under VMS), i.e. no compile-time warnings or errors.
And I believe that this is F90, not one of the F95 extensions.
Regards, Paddy
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