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On detecting misspelt identifiers in fortran
Author(s) -
Scowen R. S.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380070413
Subject(s) - mistake , fortran , statement (logic) , computer science , identifier , programming language , variable (mathematics) , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology , mathematical analysis , political science , law
An insidious mistake in Fortran is to misspell a symbolic name and thus inadvertently create a new variable. This short note shows how the IMPLICIT statement can be used to detect this mistake easily.