21.8 Better Diagnostics

These are things users might not ask about, or that need to be looked into, before worrying about. Also here are items that involve reducing unnecessary diagnostic clutter.

• When FUNCTION and ENTRY point types disagree (CHARACTER lengths, type classes, and so on), ANY-ize the offending ENTRY point and any new dummies it specifies.

• Speed up and improve error handling for data when repeat-count is specified. For example, don't output 20 unnecessary messages after the first necessary one for:

  INTEGER X(20) CONTINUE DATA (X(I), J= 1, 20) /20*5/ END

  (The CONTINUE statement ensures the DATA statement is processed in the context of executable, not specification, statements.)