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Superfluous tokens & failure to diagnose

IanH
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‎08-26-2014 09:43 PM
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Short and sweet.

  PRINT "(A)", 'There is something ' & &
    // 'wrong with this statement.'
END

>ifort /c /check:all /warn:all /standard-semantics /stand "2014-08-27 AFewTooMany.f90"
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Steven_L_Intel1
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‎08-27-2014 10:22 AM
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I could interpret the standard as saying this is legal. The standard says:

If a noncharacter context is to be continued, an "&" shall be the last nonblank character on the line, or the last nonblank character before an "!".

Well, the last nonblank character is "&" - just not the same one that started continuation. I don't see any words in the standard to prohibit more than one &. Amusing. I will have to ask the committee what they think.

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