On Nov 12, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov<mailto:jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Blaise A Bourdin <bourdin at lsu.edu<mailto:bourdin at lsu.edu>> wrote: > 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. Do you mean that you are contemplating switching to fortran90? ;) May I ask what part of that abomination you consider to be a proper module system? "abomination"? I was expecting something more creative. Note that compile-time overloading is completely different from multiple dispatch. Remember: we, fortran programers, don't understand the difference, so does it really matter? Just kiddin', Blaise -- Department of Mathematics and Center for Computation & Technology Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA Tel. +1 (225) 578 1612, Fax +1 (225) 578 4276 http://www.math.lsu.edu/~bourdin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-users/attachments/20121112/e878ac7f/attachment.html>
