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At 15:45 04-12-97 +0100, you wrote: >[log in to unmask] wrote: >> Dr Michael Hardy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> > > > - every program unit contains IMPLICIT NONE >> > > > - every module starts with PRIVATE >> > > > as a convention/programming style. Pity these two are not defaults. >> > > > I'd like to be able to say "Not just a good idea - it's the LAW!" >> > > >> > > Let me disagree with this widespread point of view. >> > > (...) please, forget unnecessary constraints and especially >> > > the LAWs: we are all adults, not schoolchildren. >> >> Then let me express my public support. Especially on this ``last bit'': >> adults can program safely, and decide by themselves which constraint >> is useful and when. This discussion is going to look like de historical development of plutocracy, democracy, anarchy, dictatorship, ... I tend to the feeling that in today's society (programmers' society that is) a (not too) restrictive legislation is a good thing. >Being adult has as much to do with the subject at hand as being >adulterous. Since when the adult people don't make mistakes? Any >new definitions of being adult out there that I don't know of? > >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. But what >might help to resolve this dispute and keeping the opponents at least >half-happy would be some work on standardizing Fortran compilation >environment (or whatever you'd like to call it). 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, >- possibly many more features. > >Of course, the compilation environmentmeans much more than compiler >command line options, but that discussion has no place in this thread. > >Regards, >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Artur Swietanowski mailto:[log in to unmask] --- Best Greetings, Jan van Oosterwijk Computing Centre Delft University of Technology P.O. Box 354 2600 AJ Delft Netherlands Phone: +31 15 278 50 17 Fax: +31 15 278 37 87 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%