Re: Array Constructors

Richard Maine wrote:

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Do note that both I/O and DATA statement implied do loops go "way back".
So the difference isn't something new. People wouldn't yet have had a
chance to get annoyed enough at me to want to give me the chance to make
a fool of myself. Well, my parents were probably pretty frustrated, but
that's another matter. :-)

I/O implied DO back to Fortran I in 1956. DATA statements have always been non-executable statements. It seems that DATA implied DO came in
Fortran 77.

As for variables that don't really exist, but have to be declared
anyway, consider the dummy arguments for statement functions.

Hmmm. Since Fortran 77 allows DO variables to be REAL, maybe
DATA implied DO variables can also be REAL. That would be a reason
you would need to declare them.

-- glen

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