(j3.2006) Future deprecation of overriding character length, dimension and codimension

[Van Snyder]

On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 20:39 +0000, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) wrote:
> > On Feb 24, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov>
> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 19:57 +0000, Bill Long wrote:
> >> Automatic code generators can certainly be trained to generate
> >> statement continuations. 
> > 
> > Not if you don't have source code, the company that provided it is
> out
> > of business, and you're still contractually obligated to use it.
> 
> Or in my common case where I can do it with a CPP/FPP macro.   Can?t
> put line-breaks into those ?
> 
> (But in that case it has no bearing on the original thread topic -  it
> just points to another desire for allowing longer lines or more
> powerful preprocessors that are acceptable to my user base.)

As Malcolm and Stan have pointed out, removing anything, or even
declaring it obsolete, simply adds (or changes) messages from
processors.

I have a code that uses computed GO TO.  Fortunately, the processors I
use still compile it, but they all complain.  I'd love to re-cast it as
a coroutine (which it is), so that somebody else could understand it
without spending a month studying it, but that was removed from our work
plan.