Language Extensions: Additional Language Features

The following are language extensions that facilitate compatibility with other versions of Fortran:

• DEFINE FILE statement

• ENCODE and DECODE statements

• FIND statement

• The INTERFACE TO statement

• FORTRAN 66 Interpretation of the EXTERNAL statement

• An alternative syntax for the PARAMETER statement

• VIRTUAL statement

• AND, OR, XOR, IMAG, LSHIFT, RSHIFT intrinsics (see the A to Z Reference)

• An alternative syntax for octal and hexadecimal constants

• An alternative syntax for an I/O record specifier

• An alternate syntax for the DELETE statement

• An alternative form for namelist external records

• The integer POINTER statement

• Record structures