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))
then all the literals/non-type-specificied reals and complexes(?) can be
of the implicit kind specified. put it in the same place as an implicit
statement or even allow it to be in a module and make everything accessing
this module have the implicit type conversion.
its not substantially different from passing a -r8 or -qautodbl=dbl4 as
compiler flag, but it will easier to get a blessing from the fortran
committee on the language end than on the compiler end.
renchi
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