From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom8=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Wed Mar 26 10:34:26 2014 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id A27D93585F9; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:34:26 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.142]) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A5D3585C9 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:34:25 +0100 (CET) X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.51]:46104) by ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.157]:25) with esmtpa (EXTERNAL:nmm1) id 1WSkE4-0004ZS-89 (Exim 4.82_3-c0e5623) (return-path ); Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:34:24 +0000 Received: from prayer by hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (hermes.cam.ac.uk) with local (PRAYER:nmm1) id 1WSkE4-0002GC-Fo (Exim 4.72) (return-path ); Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:34:24 +0000 Received: from [91.125.220.221] by old-webmail.hermes.cam.ac.uk with HTTP (Prayer-1.3.5); 26 Mar 2014 09:34:24 +0000 Date: 26 Mar 2014 09:34:24 +0000 From: "N.M. Maclaren" To: sc22wg5 Subject: Re: [ukfortran] (SC22WG5.5206) New types from old Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140326020651.4C027358603@www.open-std.org> References: <20140326020651.4C027358603@www.open-std.org> X-Mailer: Prayer v1.3.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk On Mar 26 2014, Van Snyder wrote: > > ... Interesting. I thought of specifying a generic interface, but realised that it wouldn't fly, for the same reason that the existing specification introduces a gotcha (Collectives.2 in my comments). Your ideas may be too radical, but would tackle the problem. They need at least considering. Regards, Nick Maclaren.