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From: ravi@earth.ce.nwu.edu (Ravi Sinha)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Implicit parameters in Sun 1.3.1 Fortran: Bug
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Date: 8 Feb 91 03:24:59 GMT
References: <6004@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <1139@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
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In article <1139@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> t19@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Geert J v Oldenborgh) writes:
>In article <6004@idunno.Princeton.EDU> rhl@grendel.Princeton.EDU (Robert Lupton (the Good)) writes:
>>	implicit real*8 (a-z)
			 ^^^
>>	parameter (PI=3.14159)
>>	print *,dcos(PI)
>>the compiler complains about a type mismatch for dcos....
>
>Common error: how about adding
>	implicit real*8 (A-Z)
>If you mix cases - beware that Fortran may mix them too!

Isn't Fortran NOT supposed to be case sensitive?  I think that this
behavior can not be characterized as any thing but a bug.  Since PI is 
not a CHARACTER variable, why should the case matter?

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