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From: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: dpANS Fortran 8x
Summary: pointers, boo!
Message-ID: <26042@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 11 Jun 89 05:14:04 GMT
References: <2716@elxsi.UUCP>
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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In article <2716@elxsi.UUCP>, corbett@beatnix.UUCP (Bob Corbett) writes:
> Pointers are the most significant addition to the language since the public
> review.  Pointers made it possible for X3J3 to remove some of the most bizarre
> features of the public review version of the language without losing any
> functionality.  


if you are referring to range and identify, i disagree.  the pointer
mechanism in the current draft completely blows optimization (except
perhaps peephole-type optimization).  an utterly bizarre decision.
i *want* pointers, but i want my fortran to fly, and it won't the
way the current draft reads.  on this point alone my review
comments will be strongly negative.

i will comment further when the draft is made public.

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dan davison/theoretical biology/t-10 ms k710/los alamos national laboratory
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