Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sugar!ssd
From: ssd@sugar.uu.net (Scott Denham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: (none)
Summary: we don't need no steeking new source form
Message-ID: <2595@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 3 Sep 88 04:18:23 GMT
References: <651@<8052> <11800003@modcomp> <2998@dalcs.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <2998@dalcs.UUCP>, buckley@dalcs.UUCP (Bert Buckley) writes:
> In article <11800003@modcomp> joe@modcomp.UUCP writes:
> >
> >Well, yes.  My understanding is that most of the new features of 8x are
> >tied to the "new source form", which is incompatible with the existing
> >source form.  
> 
> I do not believe that to be true at all. The proposals for the new source
> form could be dropped entirely, and the rest of the proposals would stand.

That's my understanding of the standard, too. From what I hear of 
what's been going on on the committee, it would appear to be likely
that exactly that might happen - the newsource form may be one of those
hunks of excess baggage that the standard has picked up that could be
shed to calm those who find it excessively verbose.