Re: a cute program

bru <bru@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> robert.corbett@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > Consider the program
> > 
> >       SUBROUTINE SQRT
> >         PRINT *, 10
> >       END
> > 
> >       PROGRAM MAIN
> >         CALL SQRT
> >       END
> > 
> > This program is standard conforming.
> > 
> > Bob Corbett
> 
> Why 10 instead of '10' works?

Either would work fine, but that's clearly unrelated to Bob's point.

See the syntax of the PRINT statement in any Fortran text. The 10 here
is the output list. Lots of things are allowed in an output list, with
10 and '10' both being simple examples of literal constants (which in
turn are simple cases of expressions).

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