PRs 88052 and 88190

[Steve Kargl]

On Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 08:17:42PM -0700, Jerry D wrote:
> Steve and others
> 
> We continue to run into issues with PRs like this.  I would like to close
> these out.  I completely hate the mechanisms we have for the options.  Why?
> Because every time I look at it I have to think it through ten ways to
> sunday. It is not straight forward.
> 
> What I would like to do is give a hard error fro out of compliance stuff and
> with std=legacy give a warning.
> 
> This is almost a policy question really. What is your opinion. Move forward
> with what I just suggested here?
> 

See my comment #6 in 88052.

Hindsight is 20-20.

I personally would like to see -std=f2023 made the default.

Any, and all, extensions would require an explicit option to
accept the non-standard Fortran construct.

Unfortuantely, the -std=gnu ship sailed years ago.

-- 
Steve