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From: hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Overloading operators in Fortran 8x
Message-ID: <66bseallidayd@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 89 23:51:10 GMT
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In my posting (message <666hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu>) I stated:

>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):
>
>Comment    Type of     Some representative      Comments concerning
>Delimiter  delimiter        languages              applicability
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>...
>%         end of scan   PostScript, TeX     May be useful as comment
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                        sometimes Prolog    character, but some users may
>                                            desire it for its definition
>                                            for percentages

I forgot that ``%'' is used as the structure field selection operator, so
we certainly cannot use it as an end of scan character.