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

[Clune, Thomas L. GSFC-6101]

Van,

I?m not disagreeing.   I carefully stated ?sufficient for existing use cases?.   I then elaborated on the requirements for mine.

It is a separate issue for the committee to _accept_ each of our use cases as a priority.    If both are accepted then yours will drive the limit.   But if someone else comes along with an even higher limit that meets the committees threshold for acceptance then it could be even higher.   (Seems unlikely that anyone will trump yours though.)

- Tom



> On Oct 27, 2017, at 2:05 PM, Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 16:43 +0000, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) wrote:
>> I have no problem with going for a specific value rather than
>> ?unlimited?.  (Though I am interested in responses to Van?s point
>> about other ?unlimited? things such as lines in a module.)
>> 
>> I would, however, push to be ?out ahead? of the issue rather than
>> simply making the line length sufficient for existing use cases.
>> History suggests that the requirements for such things do grow over
>> time.    For my immediate use cases  512 characters would be
>> sufficient.   I would like to see at least a 2x safety factor on that
>> though, so 1024 (or above) would have my vote.   
> 
> I already have programs for which 1024 is too small by a factor of
> seven, so it's not "out ahead" of existing use cases.  What's wrong
> with, say, 99999?  That's 13 MB, which is not going to strain any
> existing compiler's platform.  And I'm pretty sure that a compiler could
> exploit dynamic memory so as not to have such a buffer "lying around."
> 
>