Richard Maine wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Renchi Raju wrote:
>
>> maybe this has been suggested (and rejected) before. but how about
>> having
>> something similar to implicit statements.
>>
>> for eg:
>>
>> implicit real_kind(selected_real_kind(12,30))
>
>
> Yes. With trivial spelling variations, that's among the first of
> the ideas mentioned. Alas, how to spell the implicit statement is
> by far the smallest of the problems.
>
Enhancing IMPLICIT along these lines was the subject of paper 04-119 at
the last J3 meeting. The proposal was approved for continued
consideration as a feature for the next standard.
Cheers,
Bill
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