[Bug fortran/52846] [F2008] Support submodules - part 3/3

[Paul Richard Thomas]

Dear All,

In the words of Jean-Luc Picard, "I will make it so.... "

Paul

On 24 July 2015 at 10:08, Damian Rouson <damian@sourceryinstitute.org> wrote:
> I love this idea and had similar thoughts as well.
>
> :D
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jul 24, 2015, at 1:06 AM, Paul Richard Thomas <paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Mikael,
>>
>> It had crossed my mind also that a .mod and a .smod file could be
>> written. Normally, the .smod files are produced by the submodules
>> themselves, so that their descendants can pick up the symbols that
>> they generate. There is no reason at all why this could not be
>> implemented; early on in the development I did just this, although I
>> think that it would now be easier to modify this patch.
>>
>> One huge advantage of proceeding in this way is that any resulting
>> library can be distributed with the .mod file alone so that the
>> private entities are never exposed. The penalty is that a second file
>> is output.
>>
>> With best regards
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>> On 23 July 2015 at 17:42, Mikael Morin <mikael.morin@sfr.fr> wrote:
>>> Hello Paul,
>>>
>>> Le 23/07/2015 09:46, Paul Richard Thomas a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Since all the private entities in a module have to be transmitted to
>>>> their descendant submodules, whilst keeping them hidden from normal
>>>> use statements, I have chosen to write the module file as usual and
>>>> add a second part that contains the private entities. This latter is
>>>> only read when processing submodule statements.
>>> why not write them to the/a .smod file?  It was its primary purpose, wasn't
>>> it?
>>> [Sorry, I followed the submodule stuff very remotely].
>>>
>>> It's probably bad practice to put private entities in module files, at least
>>> now that submodules are supported.  Nevertheless with your change,
>>> modifications made to private entities produce recompilation cascades, even
>>> though the public interfaces are left unchanged.
>>>
>>> Mikael
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's
>> too dark to read.
>>
>> Groucho Marx



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