(j3.2006) Interesting F2003-ism
Aleksandar Donev
donev1
Thu Feb 22 16:26:41 EST 2007
Bill Long wrote:
> Suppose, for the example above, the user writes (in Fortran) subroutines
> p_A and p_B
You can suppose that but I certainly do not recommend that such a thing
be allowed. As Van pointed out, I specifically was talking about interfaces.
We have talked within the context of the Assumed-shape Interop TR of
allowing the same C procedure to have several Fortran interfaces, as
this is crucial for allowing the same descriptor to be used independent
of TKR info for the array arguments. It is also useful in existing F2003
to allow one to sometimes call a C procedure with a scalar and other
times with an array actuals (something people do all the time):
INTERFACE X BIND(C,NAME="X")
interface x1(p)
real :: p
end interface
interface x2(p)
real :: p(*)
end interface
END INTERFACE X
This is all fine and nice but it does not provide anything for the case
I was talking about when there are two interfaces in different modules!
It is about basic name-space management.
The LANG="" idea sounds good to me, it would help with both issues. But
I do claim that this is not F2013 or whatever, it is Interop TR! We must
have it for the TR to make any practical sense...
Aleks
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