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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Implicit parameters in Sun 1.3.1 Fortran: Bug
Message-ID: <2919@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 8 Feb 91 12:51:54 GMT
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In article <3301@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> ravi@earth (Ravi Sinha) writes:
 > Isn't Fortran NOT supposed to be case sensitive?  I think that this
 > behavior can not be characterized as any thing but a bug.

It could not be marked a bug for such a reason.  The original program does not
conform to the Fortran 77 standard in its use of lower case.  The standard
talks about upper case only.  I know of compilers that happily reject the
program because of this.

Having said this, most compilers I know are case insensitive indeed, and
amongst them is the Sun compiler.  And indeed there is a bug in that compiler,
but not because it is case sensitive in this case (which it is not).
--
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl