[J3] INTENT part of Explicit Interface?

[Van Snyder]

On Sun, 2024-09-22 at 13:08 +0000, Klemm, Michael via J3 wrote:
> [No sure of the earlier email left my computer. Outlook...]
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have another question about INTENT attributes.  Are they part of
> the visible interface of a subroutine or are they only visible inside
> the subroutine?  I'm asking this to understand if adding INTENT(IN)
> to a dummy argument of an existing subroutine is a breaking change or
> not.
> 
> Who would I find this in the standard document or other attributes?

15.3.1 says the characteristics of a procedure include the
characteristics of its dummy arguments. 15.3.2.2 says the
characteristics of dummy data objects include their intent.

> 
> Kind regards,
>         -michael

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.j3-fortran.org/pipermail/j3/attachments/20240922/2a605958/attachment.htm>