Fortran could learn from C

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1988Feb25.191646.7580 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Beware of one fine point, though:  X3J11 is *not* requiring that the
>preprocessor be available independently of the rest of the compiler.
>(They considered it but decided it was outside their jurisdiction.)

More to the point, it makes sense to integrate preprocessing with other
phases of lexical analysis, and there are existing C implementations
that do this.