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Proposals for the Fortran Standard Committee
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Prepare default value for optional arguments proposal for submission. #145

Closed zjibben closed 4 years ago

zjibben commented 4 years ago

This continues the default-value saga from #22 #137 and #140.

I made a few formatting changes, added an introduction, and tried to capture some of the discussion in #140 about intent(out) arguments. My goal is to make sure our interests and the possible different behaviors are expressed, so the Committee has some ideas to consider. I'd like to get it in shape to submit before the meeting next week, and hope to discuss it there.

@jvdp1, I added your name to the proposal if you don't mind. Please let me know if you would like this changed and if spelling is correct.

certik commented 4 years ago

It seems there is general agreement on these changes. Further discussion might be needed on top, so let's open issues or further PRs as needed. I merged this, so that we have something in the repository that we can at least roughly agree on, and we can now work on polishing it up so that @zjibben can submit it as an official proposal.

In general, if we can't reach agreement, I think it is perfectly ok to simply propose the alternatives (with pros and cons) in the proposal, and let the committee discuss it and provide feedback.