Phillip Helbig writes: > > Now I've more than once wanted to use PARAMETER and POINTER. I even > > tried to get that one allowed in f2k, but the proposal didn't pass. > > What was the reason? Because (for the reasons you mentioned) it would > cause a lot of implementations to change, or are there deeper reasons? I don't recall...other than the "usual" reason: it didn't pass because not enough people voted for it. There were probably some rationales mentioned, but I don't recall them. -- Richard Maine [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%