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Ian Harvey  
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 More options Apr 5 2012, 5:44 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
From: Ian Harvey <ian_har...@bigpond.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:44:03 +1000
Local: Thurs, Apr 5 2012 5:44 pm
Subject: Re: array constructor syntax
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On 2012-04-05 4:42 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> Richard Maine<nos...@see.signature>  wrote:

...

> (unsnip, retrieved from the beginning of this thread)

>>>>    character(len=14), dimension(5), parameter ::&
>>>>         var_names = [character(len=14) ::&
>>>>         'YEAR', 'COMPCODE', 'RECEPTYPE', 'NCOLS', 'NROWS']

...

> Note that in this form the 14 has to be specified in two places.
> That is inconvenient, as it requires two changes if the length
> changes.

> Also, I just noticed that one is a PARAMETER, if that matters.

In this case you can (and should from the POV of code clarity) replace
the first 14 (the one in the type-spec at the start of the statement)
with *.

 
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