I wrote:
+AD4- For a start, compiler options are outwith the scope of the standard.
Robin Vowels resorts to insults:
+AD4- You may not have noticed,
That I am a Fortran user +ACo-and+ACo- a Fortran compiler writer (with options) +ACo-and+ACo- one of many Fortran standard authors? It seems unlikely.
And then misses the point completely:
+AD4- but many compilers offer options that deal with old programs, old extensions, etc.
Then ask the compiler writers for an option. There's little point in talking to the Fortran language committee about compiler options, because compiler options are not part of the language.
On the Fortran language committees, the topic of CMPLX has been discussed by a great number of people at great length, even back in Fortran 90 days. Few of them agreed with your contention that it is quite ok to break old programs. (If they had agreed, we would not have the CMPLX intrinsic that we have now.)
Cheers,
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..............Malcolm Cohen, ISO/IEC Fortran Project Editor.
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