On 1 December 2015 at 16:01, Steve Kargl <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote: >> >> David Malcolm nice Levenshtein distance spelling check helpers >> were used in some parts of other frontends. This proposed patch adds >> some spelling corrections to the fortran frontend.
> What problem are you trying to solve here? The patch looks like The idea is to improve the programmer experience when writing code. See the testcases enclosed in the patch. I consider this a feature :) > unneeded complexity with the result of injecting C++ idioms into > the Fortran FE. What C++ idioms are you referring to? The autovec? AFAIU the light use of C++ in GCC is deemed OK. I see usage of std::swap and std::map in the FE, not to mention the wide-int uses (wi::). Thus we don't have to realloc/strcat but can use vectors to the same effect, just as other frontends, including the C frontend, do. I take it you remember that we had to change all "try" to something C++ friendly. If the Fortran FE meant to opt-out of being compiled with a C++ compiler in the first place, why were all the C++ clashes rewritten, back then? :) thanks,
