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Re: g77 future / proposed extension
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Grant Petty wrote:
> > Clearly, other languages could benefit from this as well, and some (such
> > as C++) might even be able to accommodate my ideas without actually
> > extending the language itself.
> Yes, it has been done in C++. I implemented that sort of thing twice in
> C++. It's very nice to use.
> As a bonus, you can mess around with the representations for different
> units, using the fastest and most compact integer representation when
> you know your program doesn't need to deal with distances more
> accurately than 1mm for example.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't already possible today
with Fortran 90/95. Unfortunately, I never thought about this problem
so it might be useful to ask this question on comp.lang.fortran ...
Extending g77 for this purpose certainly seems the wrong approach to me,
though.
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