[J3] [EXTERNAL] Re: 21-120r2: Discussion on the feasibility of any future enhancement of Enumeration Type

[Van Snyder]

On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 16:59 -0700, Ondřej Čertík via J3 wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, at 4:41 PM, Van Snyder via J3 wrote:
> > The controversy concerning 21-120 illustrates that C ENUM was a bad 
> > idea i the first place. Bill has it right.
> > 
> > Please think through what is being done. Do it right. Don't do half 
> > measures. Doing nothing is better than adding a kludge that can't be 
> > undone.
> 
> Yes, I also want to voice that it's better to wait and do it right,
> than putting a feature in the language that does not have a strong
> consensus. Also, one of the huge advantages of Fortran, compared to
> some competition, is that it is a simple language. By adding
> features, we are slowly losing this advantage. And so if we do put a
> new feature in, it should rather be a feature that has a community
> consensus and is a strong new feature that outweighs the negative
> cost of making Fortran bigger.

One way to avoid undue increase in complexity is to extend existing
features, not invent new ones.

> 
> Ondrej
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