Re: Syntax check for IMPLICIT statement

Michael Metcalf wrote:

> "James Van Buskirk" <not_valid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:wpmdnYLdJ7wLl4jVnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>In attempting to create a digestible version of a program that gives
>>gfortran an ICE and causes incorrect output for ifort, the critical
>>factor for both seems to be a line such as:

>>  implicit character(len=*,kind=kind('A')) (Q)

> "For a scalar named constant or for a dummy argument ... a len-value may
be 
> specified as an asterisk" ("Fortran 95/2003 Explained", Section 7.13).

Even so, it shouldn't ICE.

Still, I don't see, as James seems to believe, that dummy arguments and 
named constants (also, external functions) can't be done through
IMPLICIT.  It might be bad style, but is it illegal?

Does it only fail if used in a MODULE?

-- glen