Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-emx!reeder
From: reeder@ut-emx.UUCP (William P. Reeder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran 8x, irrelevant features
Message-ID: <1066@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 21:40:17 GMT
References: <501@a.UUCP>
Organization: University of Texas Computation Center
Lines: 38
Keywords: Fortran, Standard
Summary: fixed source form IS deprecated

In article <501@a.UUCP>, jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
> 
> The old fixed source form is not even deprecated, so continued use is
> not in future danger either.
> 

Please see page B-5, lines 15-25 of S8.104, where it says:

B.3.2  Redundant Functionality.  The features identified below are 
deprecated simply because they are now completely redundant, ...
^^^^^^^^^^
...
  (1)   Fixed source form -- replaced by the free source form (3.3.1)
...

Sounds to me like fixed source form is deprecated.


Now look on page A-4, lines 75-90, and page A-5, lines 1-13:

A.3.2  Rules for Supplementary Standards.  Some rules governing the
preparation of supplementary standards based on procedure and module
libraries are:
...
  (4)   Standard modules must not use obsolescent or deprecated features ...
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
...

Sounds like the use of fixed source form IS in danger -- if I want my
package to be considered as a supplementary standard (perhaps for 2d or
3d graphics) then I had better not use fixed source form.


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