(j3.2006) Did we intend for it to be impossible for an elemental function to have a polymorphic result?

[Bill Long]

Why trun a clean and simple feature into an ugly wart?

Cheers,
Bill

On Nov 18, 2015, at 5:19 PM, Van Snyder <Van.Snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Did we intend for it to be impossible for an elemental function to have
> a polymorphic result?
> 
> The result can only be polymorphic if it has the ALLOCATABLE or POINTER
> attribute, which is prohibited by C12102 in 15-007r2.
> 
> It would be more useful if C12102 were replaced by a requirement (which
> cannot be a constraint) that the dynamic type of every element of the
> result be the same.
> 
> 
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