(j3.2006) Select Rank

[Malcolm Cohen]

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SELECT RANK was proposed by Tobias on Feb 17, 2013 (See
http://mailman.j3-fortran.org/pipermail/j3/2013-February/006144.html and
14-189).  Its proposed syntax is consistent with what you have below.  Its
effect can be achieved via select case + block + c_f_pointer.  IIRC, it
was one of the candidate features discussed in the meeting where the
Fortran 2015 candidate features were considered.  It didn't make the final
list.
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IIRC, it did not make the final list partly because the version being considered 
had become overly complicated.  A simpler version *might* be worth considering. 
Or not.

>Its effect can be achieved via select case + block + c_f_pointer.

(1) Requiring BLOCK + C_LOC + a C_PTR temp + C_F_POINTER is pretty ugly.

(2) Even so, that only works in the case where the array is contiguous.  That 
rather ruins the general usability (it will fail mysteriously - and silently 
apart from the wrong answers and/or memory corruption).

Cheers,
-- 
................................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.