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From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Missing constraint in F88 draft?
Message-ID: <594@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 89 02:37:36 GMT
References: <1326@key.COM>
Organization: University of New Mexico at Albuquerque
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In article <1326@key.COM>, sjc@key.COM (Steve Correll) writes:
> I think there's a missing constraint in F88 draft S8.112 section 9.4.1. It
> correctly forbids "REC=" with list-directed formatting, but does not forbid
> "REC=" with a namelist.

On p. 9-3, lines 21-22 (Direct Access section) it says that "The records
of the file must not be read or written using list-directed, nonadvancing,
or namelist formatting", so technically it is covered, but I think someone
missed adding the constraint exactly where you indicated it should be.