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Date: 27 May 2015 12:34:03 +0100
From: "N.M. Maclaren" <nmm1@cam.ac.uk>
To: WG5 <sc22wg5@open-std.org>
Subject: Re: [ukfortran] (SC22WG5.5510) (j3.2006) Assignment to zero-sized	strings
 and arrays
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On May 27 2015, Malcolm Cohen wrote:
>
> Myself, I am fundamentally apathetic. Only, let's not do an "at least", 
> if we are going to bother with it at all, let's get it right. Whatever 
> that is...

It is, at best, misleading. But it looks very easy to fix, by (say) 
appending ", and is not allocatable" to the end of that sentence.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.