dwh@twg-ap.UUCP (Dave Hamaker) (10/08/88)
In article <3@microsoft.UUCP> bobal@microsoft.UUCP (Bob Allison) writes in an example code fragment illustrating currently favored proposals for pointers in FORTRAN 8X: > INTEGER :: ioem,k ! God, I hate double colons ! God, I loved that In my comments to X3J3, I suggested using one colon in the new declaration form. As far as I could see, the only conflict with this is the syntax for control construct "names" (which are really a highly restricted kind of label: I guess numeric labels for "improved" language constructs are too archaic, but we can't do anything which could be construed as an approval of the hated GOTO). Anyway, I thought that was a better place to use the double colon, or something else. I'm curious what others think of this. -Dave Hamaker