https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Reserved-Words/m-p/953904#M20282 Fortran has no reserved words. It's bad practice to use Fortran keywords as variable names because it can make programs difficult to read, but the compiler should be able to compile them ok. (I say <I>should</I> because I know that in the past we've had occasional parsing problems when variable names start with a letter sequence that is a keyword.)<BR /><BR />COUNT, by the way, is not a Fortran keyword at all.<BR /><BR />Steve Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:59:05 GMT Steven_L_Intel1 2001-06-11T22:59:05Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Reserved-Words/m-p/953903#M20281 I know it is bad programming practice to use FORTRAN reserved words as variables. However, I am porting older programs (FORTRAN 4 and 5) that use "TYPE" and "COUNT" as local variables. How does the compiler (V5.0A and V6.5A) handle this? Does declaring them as variables in the program override their use as a reserved word? Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:51:25 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Reserved-Words/m-p/953903#M20281 Intel_C_Intel 2001-06-11T21:51:25Z https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Reserved-Words/m-p/953904#M20282 Fortran has no reserved words. It's bad practice to use Fortran keywords as variable names because it can make programs difficult to read, but the compiler should be able to compile them ok. (I say <I>should</I> because I know that in the past we've had occasional parsing problems when variable names start with a letter sequence that is a keyword.)<BR /><BR />COUNT, by the way, is not a Fortran keyword at all.<BR /><BR />Steve Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:59:05 GMT https://community.intel.com/t5/Software-Archive/Reserved-Words/m-p/953904#M20282 Steven_L_Intel1 2001-06-11T22:59:05Z