This PR addresses #14. Fortran needs the type and rank of array parameters at compile time. Rank isn't an issue here because arrays are flattened in BMI; however, we do need separate getters and setters for all Fortran intrinsic types. Here, I've implemented those for integers, floats, and doubles, following the guide of SIDL types in Babel. This places an additional burden on the model developer because they have to implement more BMI methods (even if they're just stubs). However, the user of the BMI doesn't need to worry about these typed getters and setters because they're implemented as generic procedures -- this means the user calls get_value, for example, and the compiler sorts out which typed method to call, based upon the the argument type.
This PR addresses #14. Fortran needs the type and rank of array parameters at compile time. Rank isn't an issue here because arrays are flattened in BMI; however, we do need separate getters and setters for all Fortran intrinsic types. Here, I've implemented those for integers, floats, and doubles, following the guide of SIDL types in Babel. This places an additional burden on the model developer because they have to implement more BMI methods (even if they're just stubs). However, the user of the BMI doesn't need to worry about these typed getters and setters because they're implemented as generic procedures -- this means the user calls
get_value, for example, and the compiler sorts out which typed method to call, based upon the the argument type.cc @sc0tts, @mcflugen