(j3.2006) [Fwd: Fortran 2008 query]

[Van Snyder]

On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 21:47 +0000, Bill Long wrote:

> Future memory schemes will involve (faster) memory incorporated into
> the processor chip, or stacked very close.  And less memory/chip.
> With more cores, definitely less memory/core.


This is almost irrelevant to compiling long statements or even long
definitions of named constants.  There will almost certainly be more
memory per node.  And nobody is advocating gigabytes in a named
constant.  Stop the exaggeration.  If statement length is made unlimited
in the standard, which I think is the case in every other real language,
and somebody stumbles over a processor's limitation (in the same
category as a limit on construct nesting), that's his problem instead of
the standard's problem.  It's not the standard's duty to protect every
moron from having to think.

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