Re: Fortran90 and Arrays

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From: Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 02:40

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Stephen P Spackman:
   Actually, one of my biggest criticisms of J is that it is one of
   the worst "reserved word" offenders I've seen: there is a large
   vocaublary of operator symbols allowed by J's lexical rules (like &
   and *:) and EVERY ONE of them is reserved. If this isn't foolish I
   don't know what is.

How about having reserved words which can not be distinguished from
identifiers by a casual user?  Also, a quick look at the back cover of
the working copy of the J language specification, I see slightly under
80 tokens [which includes all your reserved words].  80 words is not
outrageous for a computer language.

   Part of the reason, of course, is that there isn't enough of a type
   system to resolve overloads.

I'm not quite sure what this means.

   But it seems really silly to say "these are my letters and those
   are yours" and make it impossible to build application-specific
   notation within the language.

I haven't a clue what this means.

-- 
Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell                   <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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