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

[Bill Long]

> On Mar 29, 2021, at 12:43 PM, Van Snyder via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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> 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?
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>> The proposals did not fail.
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> Tell me the page or subclause number where TYPEOF and CLASSOF declarations are described.

See 7.3.2.1 (page 56) in 21-007.

Cheers,
Bill

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