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What is (3f) indicating?

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    Without compiled unix-style Fortran man pages, it doesn't convey anything useful. Personally, I find it clutter and would prefer fortran-lang's tutorials and documentation to leave it out.

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    Personally, I find it clutter and would prefer fortran-lang's tutorials and documentation to leave it out.

    I'm entirely in agreement.

    My guess is that these “man page” tags come from @reedcanopy, who simply can't tell where they belong and where they don't!

    Around 2016-19, before Fortran Discourse, @reedcanopy's comp.lang.fortran messages - remember, that forum was entirely text - contained these tags, particularly (3f), leaving readers puzzled about what they were relevant to!

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    That strikes me as somewhat unfair. As I recall, their own tools actually use the man-page naming convention. These (3f) labels and similar ones reach fortran-lang's material as a side effect of @reedcanopy contributing so much. Removing them and submitting a PR doesn't sound especially burdensome.

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