Re: Big array indexes

In article <m18y8xwgyd.fsf@MLMCE0000L22801.local>, Richard E Maine
<nospam@see.signature> writes:

> I'd think life
> would be a lot simpler in this area if default integer kind were just
> changed to 64 bits, but I realize that would make life more complicated
> in other areas (mostly in portability of the amount of old code that
> assumes otherwise).

It seems to me that adding suffixes to constants in order to indicate
the KIND makes the code less readable.  Would it be too much to ask to
have something like

DEFAULT_INTEGER_KIND = SELECTED_INT_KIND(15)

(and similarly for other data types) and require this to be put before
any variable declarations?