On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:13:20AM -0900, Kate Hedstrom wrote: > > True. But what if someone comes up with a Fortran++? > > They have - it is called Fortran 2000 and includes exceptions and > inheritance.
I was unclear. I meant "a language whose compiler is invoked by 'f++' or (literally) 'fxx'". In that case, one will want FXX/FXXFLAGS to still be available. > 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. :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The acronym for "the powers that be" differs by only one letter from that for "the pointy-haired boss".