------- Comment #2 from anickol at yahoo dot com 2009-04-07 08:59 ------- As I already said, I have code, being compiled with MS Fortran, that has a lot of variable names starting with $. MS Fortran allows it.
My personal opinion is that the Fortran compiler's primary use is support of the legacy code. That means that the implementation of any extension or even strange behaviour of existing compilers could be useful and will save hours of hard work. Forcing standards on existing code is illogical. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39670
