I was a bit surprised to find that our f90 compiler was not happy with the
following:
function test
integer :: test
I was puzzled why it is necessary to have instead:
function test()
integer :: test
I was writting a module where I wanted all variables private and access
functions to return the value. Hence functions with no arguments.
The () on the function statement seem completely redundant so why have
them? p112 on fortran90/95 explained appears to show them as required so
it's obviously part of the standard.
No big deal, I'm just curious.
Glenn
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