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Re: --enable-languages should be "fortran" instead of "f95"
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: Fran?ois-Xavier Coudert <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gfortran <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, patch <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:11:43 -0700
- Subject: Re: --enable-languages should be "fortran" instead of "f95"
- References: <19c433eb0508310331300ee6a5@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:31:31PM +0200, Fran?ois-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> There are very logical/meaningful arguments to renaming the language
> name from f95 to fortran (this is PR 17815). Is there any technical
> reason why we shouldn't do it now? At least, we could still support
> the old name for some time (at least on 4.0 branch), but is there any
> reason for delaying (possibly for an infinite time) such a change?
>
> If there is no argument against it, I will provide the patch needed. Comments?
>
I think it is a good idea.
--
Steve