------- Comment #6 from jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-10-06 20:22 ------- Reply to comment #2: After studying this some more.
Note that the first form of the READ has a non optional left paren. This means that as soon as one sees a left paren right after READ that we must be in io-control-spec-list form. The PRINT statement is valid because the first entity after the PRINT, must always be a format expression, parens do not matter in the same way. I am going to vote that this bug is invalid. IFORT and Sun F95 also reject this. I will post to comp.lang.fortran for an interpretation. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33268
