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From: kurtk@tektronix.UUCP (Kurt Krueger)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.lang.f77
Subject: Re: stupid problem in fortran
Message-ID: <5318@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 15:28:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 15:28:57 1985
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Reply-To: kurtk@tektronix.UUCP (Kurt Krueger)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 


	This is in response to the fact that statements like:

	var = 'x' // var

generally don't work as expected.

	The following is an excerpt from a CDC fortran manual (and
CDC has done a very good job of implementing the standard Fortran 77):

	Character assignment statement

	v = exp

.... None of the character positions being defined in v can be referenced
in exp.

	Personal comment:  I too feel that the problem should be considered
a bug, but it appears that the intent of the standard is to disallow this
type of usage.  I can also see an implementation headache for the compiler
writer.  The only solution is to use a temporary variable.  A longer term
solution would be to let your feelings be known to the ANSI committee so
that f8x standard would allow this.