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From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: operator precedence on FORTRAN 77
Keywords: unary minus, exponenation
Message-ID: <360@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 89 15:15:15 GMT
References: <3744@uwovax.uwo.ca> <8980@saturn.ucsc.edu> <320@unmvax.unm.edu> <606@mbph.UUCP>
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Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
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In article <606@mbph.UUCP>, hybl@mbph.UUCP (Albert Hybl  Dept of Biophysics  SM) writes:
> 
> The gentleman from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
      ^^^^^^^^^
> speaking in a firm, judicial voice provided the interpretation

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
I'm not with UNM as the signature line indicates; they let me use
their mail system, but I don't want them embarassed by what I say.

> IMPLEMENTORS SHOULD NOT BE FREE TO GIVE ANY INTERPRETATION THEY WANT!
> THEY SHOULD REPORT AN ERROR AND/OR SUBMIT THE PROBLEM FOR ADJUDICATION!

In Fortran 8x, implementors will be required to report nonstandard syntax
(as in the examples), but we have had this whole discussion before.
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Walt Brainerd  Unicomp, Inc.           brainerd@unmvax.cs.unm.edu
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