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From: CDHWilli@exua.exeter.ac.uk (Charles Williams)
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Subject: Re: Fortran 90 status
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In-reply-to: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca's message of 12 May 91 19:07:10 GMT

>mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)

writes

>    The current standard has two categories of constructs: "general"
>and "deprecated".  (I'm not sure what terminology the standard actually
>uses.  I trust my usage is clear enough.  The second class corresponds
>to old language features retained only for compatibility and which may be
>removed in the next round of standardization, while the first category...

I seem to recall noting that the Standard is sufficiently broad-minded
not only to introduce new feature(s?) and deprecate them straight away.