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by pklausler 83 days ago
Your code will work unchanged until you try to change compilers or your compiler adopts a J3 breaking change to the language.
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> your compiler adopts a J3 breaking change to the language

Like all the 3 of them they added in the last 30 years, and that compiler vendors are not enforcing anyway because they don’t want to annoy their users?

Windows’ backward compatibility is a joke compared to Fortran.

We're definitely enforcing some of them. But the latest one from F'2023 isn't going to be.