Hi,
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, David A. Case wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006, Scott Brozell wrote:
>
> > > > integer :: system_coord_id = 0
>
> > Agreed, but is it or is it not Fortran standard compliant ?
>
> It *is* standard-compliant in F95: see p. 139 of Metcalf, Reid and
Cohen,
> "Fortran 95/2003 Explained."
>
> This syntax is not required to be supported in Fortran 90. I guess this
> means that an F95-compliant compiler is required for sander. Since we
are now
> 11 years past 1995, this seems like a reaonsble requirement. Other
compilers
> that are called "F90" (such as from SGI) allow this construct.
Mongan> f90: Sun Fortran 95 8.2 2005/10/13
Wow, ok; thanks for the language lawyering.
Aside: interestingly, this means that every such object is getting
initialized even as a local variable.
Scott
Received on Wed Apr 05 2006 - 23:49:35 PDT
