(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4083) keyword procedure

[Bill Long]

Reinhold Bader wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> NAG's compiler processes this without complaints.

Ditto for PGI, Pathscale, gfortran, and Cray.

> Since the procedure statement (in this context) requires brackets 
> following the keyword,
> I think there should be no problem parsing this.
> 
> Regards
> Reinhold
> 
> Aleksandar Donev schrieb:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is this syntax OK now that we made procedure a keyword? 

Fortran has many keywords, which can almost always be used as variable 
names. Otherwise, we would end up with backward compatibility issues 
with each new standard.


Intel's
>> compiler cranks out on it but I suspect that is a bug 

Yep. A bug.

Cheers,
Bill

and not
>> something we did in the language...
>>
>> function test() result(procedure)
>>    real, pointer :: procedure
>>    procedure => null()
>> end function
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aleks
>>
>>   
> 
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