> Just require a four-digit date and be done with it. I agree.
> True. But what if someone comes up with a Fortran++? They have - it is called Fortran 2000 and includes exceptions and inheritance. > > [FXX] works as a prefix for FLAGS, etcetera, unlike FC which doesn't > > (FCFLAGS would break the analogy with CC/CFLAGS). > > Using whole names whenever possible has the advantage that it > doesn't take up more room in the single-character-prefix > namespace. Indeed, the manual for GNU make recommends: I can live with FORTRAN and FORTRANFLAGS with F77 and F77FLAGS for the moldy Fortran. In fact I don't really care what they are as long as autoconf doesn't give the appearance of having frozen Fortran support back in 1977. I would imagine that the people who refuse to update their Fortran to compile under f90 are the ones who will never take up autotools anyway. Kate -- Kate Hedström Arctic Region Supercomputing Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska, Fairbanks
