FORTRAN Reference Manual
Syntax Summary
FORTRAN Reference Manual—528615-001
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FORTRAN Statements
Defines one or more areas of memory in which program units can share data.
dimension
is:
( [ lower:] upper [, [ lower:] upper ]... )
Specifies that the symbolic name of a constant, variable, array, RECORD field, 
function, or dummy procedure is of type complex.
The execution of the CONTINUE statement has no effect. It is normally used as the 
last statement of a DO loop.
Assigns initial values for variables, arrays, array elements, and substrings at compile 
time.
dimension
is:
( [ lower:] upper [, [ lower:] upper ]... )
Declares an array and specifies the number of elements in each dimension of the 
array.
Defines the beginning and end of a sequence of statements to execute repeatedly.
COMMON [ / [ cb ] / ] list [ [,] / [ cb ] / list ]...
COMPLEX name [ dimension ] [, name [ dimension ] ]...
CONTINUE
DATA list / data / [ [,] list / data / ]...
DIMENSION name dimension [, name dimension ]...
DO label [,] var = iexp , fexp [, incr ]










