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From: John Harper <john.har...@vuw.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Coarray Support in OpenUH Compiler
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Ron Shepard wrote:

> In article <e641386e-b2b9-4d03-8be0-3a780dcb359e@googlegroups.com>,
>  rusi_pathan <tabrez...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is exactly right. Fortran 2003 has nothing to do with Coarrays. It
>> is useful for people who still limit their code to Fortran 95 (and there
>> are lots of them) but want native parallelism, i.e., Fortran 95 + MPI
>> users (and there are lots of them).
> 
> These same users would probably be interested in the IEEE numerics
> support and the the C interop features of f2003.
> 
> $.02 -Ron Shepard

I agree about IEEE numerics; the other f2003 feature I would like to see in 
all modern Fortran compilers is elemental intrinsics with logical, real or 
complex arguments being allowed in initialization expressions. At present 
g95 and gfortran do allow that but two other compilers I tried don't.
  
-- 
John Harper