Author: glen herrmannsfeldtglen herrmannsfeldt Date: Sep 22, 2008 20:47
Richard Maine wrote:
(snip)
> I even recall a particular name having been mentioned as someone who
> vehemently opposed requiring compilers to figure out such forward
> references. She evidently lost the argument. I'll not repeat the name
> (except insomuch as the gender narrows it down a bit; there have been
> quite a few females on the committee, but they were still enough of a
> minority that it narrows it down considerably.)
In the case where a compiler might have to go a few lines
down to find out the needed information, it isn't so bad.
(Often true for Fortran declaration statements.)
In this case, if each subroutine contained thousands
of lines it could be a long way down. Not good at all
if you want to write a one pass compiler.
In the case of IMPLICIT NONE, is this an implicit
declaration of other_sub?
-- glen
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