# PRINT deferred variable in FUNCTION

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**Created:** [October 23, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/print-deferred-variable-in-function/8747 "2024-10-23T20:49:34Z")\
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> [@Gfortran bug on a simple program?](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/gfortran-bug-on-a-simple-program/7368/4):
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> F2018 12.12p2

It took a while for that rule to sink in with appreciation of a reason for it. I do not think I will make that error again. Seems easy enough to refrain from citing a function as a I/O statement argument. I cannot trust myself to remember which functions are free of I/O.

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