Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!rit!tropix!moscom!ur-valhalla!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!rutgers!gatech!ncar!ames!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!dik From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Overloading operators in Fortran 8x Message-ID: <8244@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 8 Aug 89 00:14:12 GMT References: <669hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 16 In article <666hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu> hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu writes: >Here is a list of some of the comment forms used by some present >programming languages and comments on whether they may be useful in the >context of Fortran, particularly with operator definition capability of the >general kind found in Macsyma (the only language that allows such >definition to go beyond overloading predefined operators---Ada's >restriction): > Note that also Algol 68 allows general operator definition (in fact the number of potential operators in Algol 68 is infinite). -- dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax