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From: LJM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Len Moss)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Comments and Continuation
Message-ID: <91053.151349LJM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 22 Feb 91 23:13:48 GMT
References: <13261@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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In article <13261@hubcap.clemson.edu>, mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu (M. J. Saltzman)
asks:
>
>Does the fortran 77 standard disallow comments interspersed with
>continuation lines?...

The full Fortran 77 language explicitly allows comment lines between
the initial and first continuation lines of a statement, or between
continuation lines; the subset language explicitly prohibits such
comment lines.  The relevant section of the standard (X3.9-1978) is
3.2.1, page 3-2 and 3-2s, lines 36-40.

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