https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93839
--- Comment #3 from Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl.washington.edu> --- On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:41:16PM +0000, roland.illig at gmx dot de wrote: > > --- Comment #2 from Roland Illig <roland.illig at gmx dot de> --- > Ok, if it's intentionally written in lowercase I'm fine with it. In the German > translation I used uppercase names since all German nouns start with > uppercase, > therefore I have a consistent "Rang + Korang", which looks nice. > > I'm assuming that these "variable names" are not used anywhere else. If this > assumption is wrong, please tell me. > The spelling is probably author dependent. :-) The words 'rank' and 'corank' appear all over the Fortran standard. Both are the names on intrinsic routines or names of dummy arguments or simply used to describe a property of an array or coarray. I suspect that if you grep the gfortran source code, you'll find errors message with 'rank' and 'RANK', and cases where the word is printed with %qs formatting.