[J3] [EXTERNAL] Elemental type-bound functions not useful

[Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101)]

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The preceding papers are hopefully correctly identified in the references bit in the header.


From: Van Snyder <van.snyder at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Monday, March 29, 2021 at 1:43 PM
To: "Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101)" <thomas.l.clune at nasa.gov>, j3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org>, j3 <j3 at j3-fortran.org>
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] [J3] Elemental type-bound functions not useful

On Mon, 2021-03-29 at 12:51 +0000, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) wrote:
When OO was being developed, there were proposals for CLASSOF and TYPEOF declarations, to specify that some entity had the same class or type as another. Those proposals failed. Could something like that make type-bound elemental functions useful?

The proposals did not fail.

Tell me the page or subclause number where TYPEOF and CLASSOF declarations are described.

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