Summer of Code: Fortran 2003 features for GCC

[Tobias Burnus <burnus at net-b dot de>]

Hi all, hello Janus,

according to http://code.google.com/soc/gcc/about.html there is one
Fortran project accepted:

"Fortran 2003 features for GCC" by Janus Weil, mentored by Steven Bosscher
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I would like to contribute to the Fortran front end of GCC by
implementing some missing features from the Fortran 2003 standard,
primarily concentrating on the ones concerning object orientation. In
particular I would like to focus my efforts on the implementation of:
- procedure pointers
- type-bound procedures
- (and possibly even more ...)
Depending on the time it takes to reach the first two aims, I would try
to implement some more Fortran 2003 features, where the object-oriented
features would be on top of my list (e.g. type extension, inheritance,
polymorphism, type-bound operators), since I think that the lack of
object orientation is the most serious deficiency of Fortran 95.
I chose the two primary aims because type-bound procedures are at the
heart of object orientation, and procedure pointers are a good first
step towards type-bound procedures.
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Gratulation Janus! Welcome to the gfortran development. Don't hesitate
to ask questions either via fortran@ or via personal email or via IRC
(#gfortran on irc.oftc.net, irc://irc.oftc.net/gfortran ).
 
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Tobias