From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Fri Jun 30 21:58:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dmo5 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dmo5@open-std.org Received: by open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id C225023781; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:58:28 +0200 (CET DST) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov (mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.81.12]) by open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8838723775 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:58:26 +0200 (CET DST) Received: from mail.dfrc.nasa.gov by mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov with ESMTP for sc22wg5@open-std.org; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:58:15 -0700 Received: from [130.134.138.171] (viruswall.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.64.54]) by mail.dfrc.nasa.gov (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-71686U2500L200S0V35) with ESMTP id gov for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:58:14 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) In-Reply-To: <20060630180313.C14AC216E9@open-std.org> References: <20060630180313.C14AC216E9@open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <192F2247-9E94-46AA-85D6-7E8474587B82@nasa.gov> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Richard E Maine Subject: Re: (j3.2005) (SC22WG5.3404) [ukfortran] WG5 Vote on Corrigendum 2 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:58:11 -0700 To: sc22wg5@open-std.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk On Jun 30, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Michael Ingrassia wrote: > I'm not sure I believe yet that > a can't appear in a . > > The case I'd worry about is something like > > TYPE NEWCHAR(L) > INTEGER, LEN :: L > CHARACTER*L :: C > END TYPE > > (which may not be legal Fortran 2003 but at least it's close!) > > Then NEWCHAR(L) is a derived-type-spec and L is a char-length within > the meaning of [41:20-37], isn't it? No. The L in newchar(L) is a type-param-value. See 4.5.8. The term char-length is a syntactic term referring to a specific syntax - not to general use. The L in the character*L (I think you need a parens there, but I'm not sure and it doesn't matter) is a char-length, but that is a different appearance of L. Again, this is a syntax term, so the fact that there is a relationship between those 2 Ls is irrelevant. One of them is a char-length; the other isn't. Char-lenggth does not mean something that eventually gets used to specify a character length somewhere. It refers to the specific syntax rules R424 el al. You won't find R424 fitting anywhere in newchar(L)/ -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; Richard.Maine@nasa.gov | experience comes from bad judgment. | -- Mark Twain