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This question wasn't resolved in CLF. Seeking clarification here. Anton From: Ian Harvey Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Declaration ordering restrictions for named constants Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 14:50:36 +1100 When discussing initialization in a type declaration statement, F2008 5.2.3 has a requirement that "if the variable is an array, it shall have its shape specified in either the type declaration statement or a previous attribute specification statement in the same scoping unit". But a constant is not a variable. So is the following conforming? INTEGER, PARAMETER :: a = [1, 2] DIMENSION a(2) END There is a requirement on named constants declared in parameter statements to have their shape specified in a prior specification statement (5.4.11p2), but I cannot find a similar restriction for named constants declared via type declaration statements. The compilers that I have access to sensibly assume such a restriction exists. Perhaps I have missed it.