My involvement in gfortran

[Paul Thomas <paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr>]

Dear All,

You might have noticed that I am contributing more than I anticipated a 
few weeks ago.  I am finding those 5 minutes here and there more 
effective than I thought they would be.  Thus I will in the next couple 
of days "undump" the PRs that I tried to unload and will bring them to 
fruition.

By the way, I have given a lot of thought since Christmas to 
parameterized derived types, extendable derived types, function 
pointers, classes, polymorphism and so on.  Whilst more easily said than 
done ( :-) ), I think that it will be more straightforward than I would 
have thought.  I note that the fortran2003 standard seems to be designed 
to avoid the likes of vtables; it seems to be enough to assign an index 
to each type and to keep track of what these mean at compile time.  As 
soon as I have confirmed that I am not being naive, I will write out a 
workplan to accomplish this.  You should note that I am C++ allergic, so 
I find myself surprised that I should be offering to do this and it is 
an indication of how different F2003 is!

In comparison sub-modules are a piece of cake and should be easily 
implemented.

Best regards

Paul