Re: Fortran 9x: time for a decision

[Eric Siegerman]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0900, Kate Hedstrom wrote:
> > True.  But what if someone comes up with a Fortran++?
> 
> They have - it is called Fortran 2000 and includes exceptions and
> inheritance.

I was unclear.  I meant "a language whose compiler is invoked by
'f++' or (literally) 'fxx'".  In that case, one will want
FXX/FXXFLAGS to still be available.

> I can live with FORTRAN and FORTRANFLAGS with F77 and F77FLAGS for the
> moldy Fortran. In fact I don't really care what they are as long as
> autoconf doesn't give the appearance of having frozen Fortran support
> back in 1977.

:-)

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