(j3.2006) Public Comment J32036 (Submodules)

[Robert Corbett]

Bill Long wrote:
> 
> Michael Ingrassia wrote:
> 
>>>As for the third of the "advantages" of submodules, nesting
>>>of scopes to any depth, is something that I believe the
>>>language shouldn't support.
>>>    
>>
>>Setting a definite limit in nesting depth (looks like 3 would
>>handle the examples in ISO/IEC TR 19767:2004(E) ?)
>>would promote portability, if as I expect every implementation will have
>>some nesting depth which is practically unattainable, just as DO loops
>>may not be infinitely nestable.
>>  
> 
> 
> At yet the lack of a limit on DO loops has not crippled portability.

Once upon a time, it did.  The original AT&T f77 compiler had a low
limit on the nesting of structured control statements (DO-loops and
block IF constructs).  I recall increasing the limit to 25 in
Berkeley Optimizing Fortran (xf77) because of complaints from users.

Bob Corbett