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From: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin)
Newsgroups: net.lang.f77
Subject: Question on "Parameter" statement
Message-ID: <410@cubsvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 22:06:44 EST
Article-I.D.: cubsvax.410
Posted: Sun Jan 26 22:06:44 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jan-86 04:56:05 EST
Reply-To: peters@cubsvax.UUCP (Peter S. Shenkin)
Organization: Columbia Univ. Bio. CG Fac., NY
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The following construction doesn't work (compile-time error) in either 
ULTRIX f77 or VMS Fortran (on a Microvax).  Should it work?  Does it
work on any machine/compiler you know of?  Does the f77 standard say
anything about this?

	PARAMETER ( Size = 10 )

	CHARACTER * Size string

	... etc.

Cheers,	Peter S. Shenkin, Dept. of Biol. Sci., Columbia Univ., NY, NY
	{philabs,rna}!cubsvax!peters	cubsvax!peters@columbia.ARPA