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[Daniel Franke]

On Thursday 17 January 2008 21:50:59 Ted Byers wrote:
> --- Daniel Franke <franke.daniel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 January 2008 18:55:19 Ted Byers
> >
> > wrote:
> > > But I don't know even if there is a fortran
> > > equivalent to the templates I love in C++.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, up to F2003, there isn't.
> > However, one can do generic programming of some sort. 
> > Have a look at the FLIBS [1] project of Arjen
> > Markus for examples.
>
> Thanks Daniel.  Good to know.
>
> But templates are not just for generic programming,
> although that was the origincal intent.  For example,
> using template metaprogramming

I'm aware of the metaprogramming in C++ (Alexandrescu, "Modern C++ Design" may 
be recommended here), but there's no way to emulate that in Fortran. That is, 
none I know. If you learn about one, I'd like to hear about it :)

I loosly scanned the first draft of F2008. There is nothing prominent that 
indicates that templates/metaprogramming will become part of the standard any 
time soon ...