From: scf16!bashford@ford-wdl1.arpa (Dave Bashford)
Subject: Re: Question of Visibility
Date: 7 Jul 93 21:15:07 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Jul7.211507.22644@scf.loral.com> (raw)
In article ... stt@spock.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) writes:
>In article ... pelakh@convex.com (Boris Pelakh) writes:
>>In article ... geneo@Rational.COM (Gene Ouye) writes:
[...]
>>>One question: what is preventing you from using dotted notation in the
>>> declaration of flag? (never mind the obvious question of why
>>> do you need the use clause)
>>
>>The user has a large body of code interfacing to a FORTRAN library. FORTRAN
>>requires .TRUE. = ~.FALSE. in a bit-wise way. They wanted to change the
>>meaning of BOOLEAN throughout their entire source by introducing the type
>>into one of the root packages, and not having to edit any of the other code.
>
>I would recommend that your user just rename "boolean" to "bool" or
>"f77_bool" or equivalent.
I'm confused. How does renaming "boolean" solve the "not having to edit
any of the other code" requirement ? That was the ultimate goal wasn't it ?
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db
bashford@srs.loral.com (Dave Bashford, Sunnyvale, CA)
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1993-07-07 21:15 Dave Bashford [this message]
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1993-07-08 14:21 Question of Visibility Gene Ouye
1993-07-08 12:17 Wes Groleau X7574
1993-07-07 21:07 Bor is Pelakh
1993-07-07 20:15 Tucker Taft
1993-07-02 14:53 agate!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!The-Star.honeywell.com!cs0.dasd.h
1993-07-02 13:36 Boris Pelakh
1993-07-01 21:44 Gene Ouye
1993-07-01 18:39 Boris Pelakh
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