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[Bug fortran/38830] Add "Variable Format Expression" I/O Capability
- From: "jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 14 Jan 2009 03:30:51 -0000
- Subject: [Bug fortran/38830] Add "Variable Format Expression" I/O Capability
- References: <bug-38830-15412@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
- Reply-to: gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org
------- Comment #4 from jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-01-14 03:30 -------
I propose that we close this as WONT FIX as well, for three reasons:
1) There are other ways to do these things and it is not necessary to use
internal I/O to do it. Character strings can be used for format strings and
they are fully addressable down to individual characters or sections within the
string, allowing one to easily assemble format strings on the fly. The need to
do this seems obscure.
2) Though some members of the gcc/gfortran team have and do comment to the
Fortran standards committee, we are not the standards committee. For whatever
reasons, the committee already rejected VFEs. It is the purpose of this
committee to discuss and make such decisions.
3) It appears that this feature is a legacy feature. IMHO (really) it is a
feature that leads to obtuse code and possibly self modifying code. I do not
think it promotes best practices regarding software design and programming.
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