Re: [photran] updates

[Jeffrey Overbey <subscribe-photran@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mathew,

> How are things going with the refactorings?

There's only one new refactoring in beta 5 (Move SAVE Variables to 
COMMON block), but there are several others in development.  I can't say 
exactly which ones will go into production when, because it's mostly 
other students developing them as parts of other projects, so it depends 
on their schedules and how robust their results are.

I should mention that the Photran Developer's Guide contains a detailed 
description of how to write new refactorings, so if anyone out there 
wants to take a shot at it, it's lots of fun.  :-)  And we're happy to 
answer questions.

Jeff

P.S. -- I had mentioned to at least one person (Bruno Boniati) that 
Rename would be able to handle INTERFACE blocks and external 
subroutines/functions across files.  That didn't happen in beta 5 -- 
there wasn't enough time to implement and test it sufficiently -- but it 
will be in beta 6.