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Jean Vezina wrote: > <snip> > >It is true that direct support for "templates" or "genericity" >would be a welcome addition for the next Fortran standard (2002 ?), >since the need for this feature has been mentioned relatively >frequently. > >It is now to the standards committees to judge of the merits of this >feature versus difficulty of implementation. > <snip> I would be very surprized if it were included in F200X. To the best of my knowledge there has only been one moderately detailed proposal for true genericity, my own discussed in the X3J3 papers 97-117 and 97-118. The current parameterized derived types proposal does not fit the bill. My proposal was really submitted too late to be included in the requirements for Fortran 200X, and the amount of work the committees face have of necessity caused it to receive short shrift. I have only received one comment on it, favorable but by someone who is not a member of either X3J3 or SC22WG5. William B. Clodius Phone: (505) 665-9370 Los Alamos Natl. Lab., NIS-2 FAX: (505) 667-3815 PO Box 1663, MS-C323 Group Off.: 505/667-3422 or 667-5127 Los Alamos, NM 87545 email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%