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 features, criterion for inclusion
Message-ID: <1109@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 22:53:30 GMT
References: <500@a.UUCP> <1067@ut-emx.UUCP> <506@a.UUCP>
Organization: University of Texas Computation Center
Lines: 22
Keywords: Standard review.

In article <506@a.UUCP>, jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
> I tend to agree, with a slight exception.  There are numerous features that
> are not yet 'standard practice' but for various reasons are available in 
> many Fortran environments.  Things like internal procedures, array syntax,

If a feature is "available in many Fortran environments" then I would say
it is standard practice -- even if the implementations are different.  So I
guess we are in agreement about the X3J3 people being allowed to standardize

> include, dynamic memory, etc..  

Unfortunately, they did much more:  Modules, generalized precision, user-
defined monadic, diadic, and assignment operators, ...

> J. Giles
> Los Alamos

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