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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Overloading operators in Fortran 8x
Message-ID: <8244@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 3 Jul 89 00:14:12 GMT
References: <669hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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 In article <666hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu> hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu writes:
 
 >Here is a list of some of the comment forms used by some present
 >programming languages and comments on whether they may be useful in the
 >context of Fortran, particularly with operator definition capability of the
 >general kind found in Macsyma (the only language that allows such
 >definition to go beyond overloading predefined operators---Ada's
 >restriction):
 >
Note that also Algol 68 allows general operator definition (in fact the
number of potential operators in Algol 68 is infinite).
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