From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Tue Jul 8 20:29:27 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h68ITRO5046636 for sc22wg5-domo; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 20:29:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from brmea-mail-3.sun.com (brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM [192.18.98.34]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h68ITIEc046631 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 20:29:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaeli@ranma.eng.sun.com) Received: from engmail1mpk.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.146.1.45]) by brmea-mail-3.sun.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h68ITC1J018649; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:29:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from ranma.eng.sun.com (ranma.Eng.Sun.COM [129.146.78.89]) by engmail1mpk.Eng.Sun.COM (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id h68ITCUY003165; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from michaeli@localhost) by ranma.eng.sun.com (8.11.7+Sun/8.11.7) id h68ITBo13634; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:29:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:29:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Ingrassia Message-Id: <200307081829.h68ITBo13634@ranma.eng.sun.com> To: Van.Snyder@jpl.nasa.gov, longb@cray.com Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2854) Straw votes to ponder concerning Modules TR Cc: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk >We should just allow an interface to be >specified more than once as long as the various specifications agree. I think this needs study, but basically I would be in strong agreement with this. >Procedures defined in a submodule have the characteristics of external >procedures (i.e. no name mangling). I guess I need to go back and reread the current proposal (or is this just in the alternative approach?). Seems to me like a potential difficulty since every module in a program (in some coding styles) wants to have a module procedure named "INIT". I haven't caught up with my reading so just ignore this comment until I read enough to find out whether it's germane. --Michael I.