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> The only proposal I've seen is the one that's generic (or parametric)
> w.r.t. values. When I see one that's generic w.r.t. values, types,
> procedures and packages, including both parameterized packages
> and instances of them, I will study it carefully.
Is "package" a term defined in Fortran? I can't find it. Do you
mean MODULE?
As for the other stuff, yes it's fairly easy to generalize inferred constants
to handle all of that. I've given examples of some of these in the past.
Aleks seem to feel that any proposal without explicit grammar productions
is incomplete and needn't be considered. Unfortunately, I believe that
syntax is among the most important of a language's feartures and believe
further that it must, as a consequence, be the *last* part of a feature
designed. My major objection to both your and Aleks' proposals is
the cumbersome nature of the syntax.
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J. Giles
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