Ignore warning produced in VS code

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Hi everyone,

I have somewhat recently found myself in charge of a somewhat large Fortran project. I do not have very much Fortran experience (but am learning as I go). The project was authored by someone who knew enough Fortran to get things working but not enough to know best practices. My goal right now is to remove a lot of the non-standard Fortran and set up some build pipelines in preparation for some larger structural changes (which I will probably ask questions about later).

However, the issue I am encountering now is in Visual Studio Code. I am seeing hundreds or warning messages of the ilk “Variable ‘<variable_name>’ masks variable in parent scope”. From what I can tell, most of these are apparently due to subroutine definitions in separate submodule files “masking” the subroutine definition in the module interface.

How can I either fix my code to not produce this warning or how can I suppress this warning?

Thanks!

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These warnings stem from the language server fortls and not your compiler so it’s completely safe to ignore. You can disable the fortls diagnostics by setting the option --disable_diagnostics or clicking the GUI option in the VSCode settings.

As a side note, these warnings should probably be demoted to info messages instead.

Hope this helps.

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Awesome thanks I know that I can ignore them. But because there are so many, I am missing warnings that I would like to address.

Is there a way to tell fortls to ignore this specfic warning but keep producing the others?

Thanks!

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I’m not a VS code user, but I’m curious if using the ONLY clause in the USE statement might result in suppressing these warnings. Many programmers advocate using the ONLY clause routinely anyway.

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Unfortunately not at this moment. I am looking for a better mechanism to control diagnostics, but it’s still early stages.