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From: hirchert@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: FORTRAN 8X discussion
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Date: 16 Feb 88 23:10:00 GMT
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For the record, Fortran 8x does _not_ remove COMMON or EQUIVALENCE or anything
else in FORTRAN 77.  Furthermore, it provides guarantees that most of these
features (including COMMON) will also be in Fortran 9x.

In a nonbinding appendix, Fortran 8x warns that the presence of "superior"
alternative may cause existing features (including COMMON) to fall into
relative disuse and eventually be removed (at some time in the distant future).
You are therefore warned that continued long term use of these features may
be bad for the health of your programs.  Note that the eventual removal of
these features is contingent on the predicted decline in usage actually
occurring.

Kurt W. Hirchert          National Center for Supercomputing Applications