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From: brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: dpANS Fortran 8x
Message-ID: <157@unmvax.unm.edu>
Date: 17 Jun 89 15:52:34 GMT
References: <2724@elxsi.UUCP>
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In article <2724@elxsi.UUCP>, corbett@beatnix.UUCP (Bob Corbett) writes:
> 
>      One feature of Fortran 8x I find particularly annoying is that the type
> definition facility permits only record types to be defined.
> 
It also does not permit structures to be declared _without_ using a type
definition (maybe not as important, but certainly a reasonable thing to do).

Most members of X3J3 have these two concepts so tightly bound in their minds
that they will not even recognize this as a problem.  Also the document
has the concepts of user-defined typed and structures (record structures)
completely confused.  I have been trying to convince them
to at least make the extension proposed by Corbett a reasonable one and,
though some claim otherwise, I feel this is not done in the current propsal.

If others out there sympathize with what Bob Corbett is saying,
please let yourself be heard!  Keep them cards and letters coming, folks!

Walt Brainerd   Unicomp, Inc.  brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu