> In article <1a9caf61-641b-455c-a3cb-60e343b70...@k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
>         Arjen Markus writes:
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>> Hello,

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>> I was experimenting a bit with preprocessing Fortran code and I came
>> to realise
>> that you can combine continuation lines and comments in such a way
>> that there
>> are at least two interpretations possible:

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>> write(*,*) 'A string & ! Continued &
>> & on the next line'   ! all that

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>> In the first line: is the first ampersand the continuation character
>> or is it the second?

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>> I hope nobody ever writes code like that, so it is mostly curiosity,
>> but still. Is this
>> situation somehow covered?

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> 3.3.1.3.2   Character context continuation
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> If a character context is to be continued, the "&" shall be the last
> nonblank character on the line and shall not be followed by commentary.
> An "&" shall be the first nonblank character on the next line
> that is not a comment line and the statement continues with the next
> character following the "&".
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