[PATCH, fortran] Revival of AUTOMATIC patch

[FX]

>> All in all I’m skeptical of adding even more old language extensions with 
>> little demand when we have a hard time filling up gaps in the standard. Each 
>> addition adds to maintainance load, especially as they might not interact 
>> too well with more modern features. (For example coarrays or BIND attribute, 
>> which were not around when AUTOMATIC was in use.)
>> 
>> I don’t find any request for this feature in the whole bugzilla database.
> 
> That's understandable. We'll maintain this feature in our own delta. I felt it 
> was in the spirit of open source to offer it in case it was useful.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to review it.

I definitely appreciate your contribution! And because it is now archived in the mailing-list archives, if people are interested in the future they can definitely pick it up. It is a rather “standalone” patch, I don’t think it would bitrot fast.

But maybe other developers feel differently about it, in which case we’ll have a more “technical” review (mostly of the testcases needed, I think).

Thanks again,
FX