On 14/08/2012 07:03, Paul Richard Thomas wrote: >> However, if we do it before, we also overwrite components to be assigned >> with a typebound call, and this can have some side effects as the LHS's >> argument can be INTENT(INOUT). > > This might be so but it is what the standard dictates should > happen.... isn't it? > It dictates that the components should be assigned one by one (by either defined or intrinsic assignment), which I don't see as strictly equivalent to a whole structure assignment followed by typebound calls (for components needing it).
Mikael