> I think I appreciate what you are trying to do here. I don't intend to sound > negative here, but if the keyword AUTOMATIC does nothing
The testcase given is not an example of useful AUTOMATIC. I think it is meant to be used to oppose an implied SAVE attribute, e.g. a variable with explicit initialization or the BIND attribute. Indeed, in the case of implied SAVE by initialization, there it is a little bit more work because you have to move the initialization to the executable part of the code. But that’s not impossible. All in all I’m skeptical of adding even more old language extensions with little demand when we have a hard time filling up gaps in the standard. Each addition adds to maintainance load, especially as they might not interact too well with more modern features. (For example coarrays or BIND attribute, which were not around when AUTOMATIC was in use.) I don’t find any request for this feature in the whole bugzilla database. FX
