>From: Greg Jaxon <Greg.Jaxon@synopsys.com> >> It wouldn't be backward compatible. > >... with FORTRAN IV. We aren't talking about what would be desirable in designing a new language. We are talking about backward compatibility with all current and prior versions of the language, which have been used in immense amounts of legacy code. Your comment is not relevant to this situation. >It wouldn't be out of the question for a system to offer a non-standard >directive, option, or switch which would change this default, would it? >I can think of one system which already has such a switch ;-) Implementations are always free to do such things. Steven Sharp sharp@cadence.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Thu Mar 1 13:28:37 2007
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