Thank you Artur. This is what I was really getting at. Some people don't
understand my sense of humour ( I did use a smiley ;-0 )
On Thursday, 4 December 1997, at 15:45,
Swietanowski Artur <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's too late now to make IMPLICIT NONE a language default. Just as
> it is too late to make PRIVATE the default for modules.
> What about adding compiler command line options for things like
> - compulsory array bounds runtime checking,
> - treating implicit none as the default (or, indeed, the only
> allowed state),
> - making PRIVATE the default in modules,
....
The excellent Cray compiler, against which I measure all progress in
Fortran, has options for all of these, EXCEPT implicit PRIVATE (Hint, hint
Roger G...? ) I am fully in favour of the standards committee turning
their attention to such compiler options, even with the many difficulties
associated with varying OS environments.
Cheers,
Len
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