[RFC] Changing the implementation language of the fortran front-end

[Paul Richard Thomas]

Richard Guenther wrote:

> > I think a nice thing to have is that one could actually compile the fortran
> > frontend in its current state with a C++ compiler.  This would make
> > localized use of C++ possible in the future.

That crossed my mind - in fact, I thought to try CC=g++ just to see how bad....
>
> Is there an easy way to try this?  The most glaring conflict with C++ is
> our "try" datatype, there may well be others.

.....things like this are.

Cheers

Paul


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