[Patch, fortran] PR24866 - ping

[Jerry DeLisle]

Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:00:40PM +0200, Paul Thomas wrote:
>> Please see
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/fortran/2006-08/msg00259.html
>>
> 
> This is OK.  Although I must ask, what is a doppelganger?
> 
 From wikipedia:

A doppelgänger (pronunciation (help·info)) is the ghostly double of a living 
person. The word doppelgänger is a loanword from German, written there (as any 
noun) with an initial capital letter Doppelgänger, composed from doppel, meaning 
"double", and gänger, as "walker". In English, the word is conventionally not 
capitalized, and it is also common to drop the German diacritic umlaut on the 
letter "a" and write "doppelganger", although the correct spelling without 
umlaut is "doppelgaenger".

The term has, in the vernacular, come to refer to any double or look-alike of a 
person, most commonly in reference to a so-called evil twin, or to bilocation. 
Alternatively, the word is used to describe a phenomenon where you catch your 
own image out of the corner of your eye. In some mythologies, seeing one's own 
doppelgänger is an omen of death. A doppelgänger seen by friends or relatives of 
a person may sometimes bring bad luck, or indicate an approaching illness or 
health problem.