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From: dwh@twg-ap.UUCP (Dave Hamaker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Double Colons (was: Pointers) in FORTRAN 8X
Message-ID: <261@twg-ap.UUCP>
Date: 8 Oct 88 01:04:59 GMT
References: <3@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <3@microsoft.UUCP> bobal@microsoft.UUCP (Bob Allison) writes in
an example code fragment illustrating currently favored proposals for
pointers in FORTRAN 8X:

>        INTEGER               :: ioem,k        ! God, I hate double colons


! God, I loved that

In my comments to X3J3, I suggested using one colon in the new declaration
form.  As far as I could see, the only conflict with this is the syntax for
control construct "names" (which are really a highly restricted kind of
label: I guess numeric labels for "improved" language constructs are too
archaic, but we can't do anything which could be construed as an approval
of the hated GOTO).  Anyway, I thought that was a better place to use the
double colon, or something else.

I'm curious what others think of this.

-Dave Hamaker