[J3] Thoughts on the semantics of generics

[William Clodius]

I am largely inclined to agree with you, but I suspect that once you have generic modules the infrastructure can be generalized to procedures at a relatively low cost. If generic procedures are viewed as say 10% the value of generic modules at 20% the cost, they may still be viewed as cost effective.

> On Aug 8, 2018, at 9:42 PM, Van Snyder via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2018-08-08 at 20:43 -0600, William Clodius via J3 wrote:
>> If generic procedures are to be implemented then I believe generic
>> arguments that are variables would be useful.
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> If generic modules are implemented, generic procedures are mostly
> superfluous, except maybe internal ones.
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