From j.l.schonfelder@liverpool.ac.uk Wed Mar 29 15:31:56 2000 Received: from mailhub2.liv.ac.uk (mailhub2.liv.ac.uk [138.253.100.95]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA21673 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:31:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j.l.schonfelder@liverpool.ac.uk) Received: from pcmail1.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.252.13]) by mailhub2.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12aIZJ-0000oe-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:31:33 +0100 Received: from [138.253.102.118] (helo=pc102118.liv.ac.uk) by pcmail1.liv.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12aIZI-0006nW-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:31:32 +0100 From: Lawrie Schonfelder Reply-To: j.l.schonfelder@liverpool.ac.uk To: "Kurt W. Hirchert" Cc: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1741) Interpretation 001 In-Reply-To: <200003291300.PAA21560@dkuug.dk> Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:31:32 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Win32 Version 4.1.5 Build (43) X-Authentication: IMSP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:00:11 -0500 "Kurt W. Hirchert" wrote: I agree with most everything Kurt said. However, I have always thought that the obviously sensible, as distinct from standard committee legalistic, interpretation of things like implied do indecies is that a. they have the scope of the implied do and b. they are implicitly declared only in that scope not in the surrounding host scope. I would go further and suggest that should an object of the same name be declared implicitly or explicitly in the host scope it is a different entity, i.e. that the rules of host association apply, as they would in any other language with nested scopes. This is I fear a vane hope therefore Kurt's final point is very well made. We probably got the default for public/private the wrong way round in all but the most trivial of cases. > > However the interpretation comes out, I think the real lesson to take from > this is that unless you are using modules as an _extremely_ bland > replacement for common, you are probably better off overriding the default > accessibility of "public" and then explicitly controlling what you want to > be accessible from your module. > -- > Kurt W. Hirchert hirchert@ccs.uky.edu > Center for Computational Sciences +606-257-8748 -- Lawrie Schonfelder Director, Computing Services Dept. The University of Liverpool, UK, L69 7ZF Phone: 44(151)794 3716, Fax: 44(151)794 3759