Inheritance of gfc_symbol / gfc_component

[Janus Weil]

Hi Paul, hi all,

>> I would greatly appreciate some general comments on using C++isms in
>> the Fortran front end (and possibly further ideas in this direction),
>> and also on the inheritance idea proposed above. Does this make sense
>> to you? Further thoughts and ideas?
>
> ...does it buy us anything in temrs of clarity or efficiency of the
> compiler?

well, I was mostly hoping to reduce code duplication. However, for the
cases I had in mind, I noticed some minor obstacles, so maybe we just
forget about it for now ...

Cheers,
Janus