Re: static function ? how ?

Arjen Markus wrote:
> KC wrote: 
>
> You can do this using g95 (that is the GNU
> compiler for Fortran 90/95):

Perhaps "the GNU compiler" should be replaced with "a GNU compiler",
since gfortran exists :).

> Via the contains statement you can introduce new subroutines and
> functions
> that can only be accessed by each other and the containing routine:
>
> subroutine suba( ... )
> ...
>     call subb( ... )
> ....
> contains
> subroutine subb( ... )
>    write(*,*) 'In subb!'
> end subroutine subb
>
> subroutine subc( ... )
>    ...
> end subroutine subc
>
> end subroutine suba
>
> (The same for main programs). Modules are even more useful, because
> more general.

Is this part of Fortran 2003 or is it an extension specific to g95?