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From: bill@hcx2.SSD.HARRIS.COM
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Dubious Fortran Construct
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Date: 8 Dec 88 21:55:00 GMT
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The X3J3 FORTRAN committee has considered this question, and an
official interpretation will be published sometime in the near future,
I believe.  (I can't remember whether we took the final vote or not.)
In any case, the concensus seems to be that this is illegal.  The
terminating statement belongs to the inner loop, so the GOTO is a
branch into a DO loop from outside the loop, which is prohibited by
the standard.

Bill Leonard, Member X3J3
Harris Computer Systems Division
2101 W. Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, FL  33309
bill@ssd.harris.com or bill%ssd.harris.com@eddie.mit.edu