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Nice work. But as far as I can see this only works for the intrinsic Fortran datatypes, i.e. the various kinds of integers and reals. Any chance for extending this to user-defined types? Looking at the code, all functionality has been repetitively implemented for each datatype -- I hope this has not been done manually, but with a code generator? If so, could the generator be extended to process user-defined datatypes?

It's really unfortunate that modern Fortran has no facilities for generic programming. That's why I'm personally moving more and more to Julia...




Fortran eventually gets every useful feature, but 5-10 years after it's clear that it's useful.




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