(j3.2006) my CD vote

[Van Snyder]

On Mon, 2017-04-10 at 10:51 -0600, Dan Nagle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I plan to vote "YES with Comment"
> 
> My comment follows:
> 
> The decision to make obsolescent the specific names of intrinsic procedures
> is a good idea, but it missed one:  DPROD.  DPROD is an anomaly, it requires
> default reals for arguments.  I've never seen it used in real code.
> It should be tossed onto the PAUSE heap.

It is used in some mathematical library codes, usually for special
functions.  DPROD(x,y) is a bit simpler than DBLE(x)*DBLE(y).

> --
> 
> Cheers!
> Dan Nagle
> 
> 
> 
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