This question came to me when I was driving today.

It’s a statement. :slight_smile: Rules of thumb I use to tell them apart: Function calls appear in expressions. Subroutine calls begin with call. Statements stand on their own.

Is allocate a function or subroutine?

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samharrison7 February 11, 2022, 10:41pm 3

I mistakenly write call allocate(...) more often than I care to admit

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Is allocate a function or subroutine?

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