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<div>On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Jed Brown <<a href="mailto:jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov">jedbrown@mcs.anl.gov</a>></div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Blaise A Bourdin <span dir="ltr">
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<div class="im">> If I were to leave C for a systems language, I would not ask for object oriented features, I would ask for (1) a proper module system and (2) native multiple dispatch.<br>
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Do you mean that you are contemplating switching to fortran90? ;)</blockquote>
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<div class="gmail_extra">May I ask what part of that abomination you consider to be a proper module system?</div>
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<div>"abomination"? I was expecting something more creative.</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Note that compile-time overloading is completely different from multiple dispatch.</div>
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Remember: we, fortran programers, don't understand the difference, so does it really matter?
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<div>Just kiddin',
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