J3/03-127

To: J3
From: UK Fortran panel
Subject: Edits for UK comment E22  (Indexing asterisk)
Date: 10 March 2003

Comment E22 of the UK vote was:

E22 Annex E
    Page 533
    Asterisk is used for so many different purposes in addition to
    multiplication, it is confusing to select only one of them for the
    index.  The entry should be removed or should be made comprehensive.


Index tags for asterisk should be added to:

29:22  (comment indicator for fixed form)
33:24  (multiplication operator)
78:1   (assumed size array dimension)
86:19  (repeat indicator for data initialization)
195:6  (default i/o unit)
195:15 (list-directed i/o indicator)
224:34 (in output field)
235:18 (repeat indicator for list directed data)
268:3  (alternate return)


The use of asterisk as a dummy is too frequent to warrant indexing.
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