(j3.2006) Why did we do this?

[Bill Long]

On 7/6/11 5:11 PM, Van Snyder wrote:

>
> It's impossible for the user to write what he actually wants if the
> object has private components.  The processor can write and read such
> objects if they don't have allocatable components.  I believe it would
> be possible to write and read objects that have private allocatable
> components, if the standard were to require it.
>

I thought (one of) the point of user-written I/O routines was that the 
user would package them together with the type definition in a module 
where these routines would have access to the private components.   So, 
I'm not convinced the "It's impossible for the user ... private 
components" is correct.

Cheers,
Bill

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