Re: Bug status and Stage 3

["Rouson, Damian" <rouson at sandia dot gov>]

> I agree here, this would truly be a good thing to do!  As for my point,
> I'd like to continue with the OOP things for 4.5, but I believe both the
> array descriptor rewrite (but that's already agreed upon, I take it) and
> possibly something in the direction of co-arrays are interesting too.

I agree that continuing with OOP (and F2003 generally) is a higher priority
than co-arrays (and F2008 generally), but I hope the co-array stub
implementation suggestion of Tobias remains a consideration.

> So for short, I would very welcome an IRC meeting!  The last two ones
> were quite productive, I'd say.  And maybe this time some ones of the
> user perspective could join us, so we can get an even better plan for 4.5?

I would be very interested in participating and adding input from the user
perspective.  The co-array stubs idea is a perfect example where user input
might have an impact. As someone working on an open-source project with a
broad user base, it's valuable to be able to add a feature that will be
extremely attractive to users of one compiler (g95) without breaking the
code for users of another compiler (gfortran). Stubs are very valuable in
this regard.

Damian