Hi Mikael,
Is this patch approved? I realize it's not the final step (no pun
intended), but I will be very excited to see this hit the trunk.
Supporting FINAL will have broad impact on my work and the work of others
writing modern Fortran libraries and applications.
Damian
On 8/25/12 1:42 PM, "
Hi Tobias,
Thanks for your work on this. This is a big step. I would add to your
list the following:
(4) If the entity is of extended type and the parent type has a component
that is finalizable, the parent component's component is finalized.
In ForTrilnos, we need for this to happen even when
Bravo! Thanks for all the hard work, Tobias.
Although I realize many people will (correctly) label the constructor
capability as syntactic sugar, it supports an idiom that is common across
OOP languages as you point out. Common idioms have expressive power.
Damian
On 11/6/11 6:29 AM, "Tobias B