Re: TYPE *, SYSTEM executable statement



beliav...@xxxxxxx wrote:

<snip>

> >From section 10.6 of the DIGITAL Fortran Language Reference Manual,
> April 1997, which used to be distributed with Digital Visual Fortran:
>
> "TYPE is a synonym for PRINT. All forms and rules for the PRINT
> statement also apply to the TYPE statement."
>
> TYPE is not a keyword in standard Fortran (and the manual acknowledges
> this by printing the information about it in a blue font).

To correct my error, of course TYPE is a keyword used to declare
derived types, but its use as a synonym for PRINT is nonstandard.

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