private variables/methods

[Alex Martelli]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> Alex Martelli fed this fish to the penguins on Saturday 11 October 2003
> 08:46 am:
> 
>> Darn.  I should have added a word -- a "current" or "currently"
>> somewhere. Arithmetic IF, variable types based on initial letter of
>> the name, and other such features are not in the _currently_ popular
> 
>         According to my text (FORTRAN 90/95 explained), the Arithmetic IF
>         is
> still available in Fortran 90, though considered "obsolescent" (a
> phrase I would put on par with Python's "deprecated"). Implicit typing
> (I-N -> integer) is also still in Fortran 90, though discouraged (but

i.e., they're there, but are not currently popular -- something popular 
would be praised, not called names;-).


Alex