Hi Thomas, I want to get something approaching correct finalization to the distros, which implies 12-branch at present. Hopefully I can do the same with associate in a month or two's time.
I am dithering about changing the F2003/08 part of finalization since the default is 2018 compliance. That said, it does need a change since the suppression of constructor finalization is also suppressing finalization of function results within the compilers. I'll do that first, perhaps? Cheers Paul On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 at 06:50, Thomas Koenig <tkoe...@netcologne.de> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > > I propose to backport > > r13-6747-gd7caf313525a46f200d7f5db1ba893f853774aee to 12-branch very > > soon. > > Is this something that we usually do? > > While finalization was basically broken before, some people still used > working subsets (or subsets that were broken, and they adapted or > wrote their code accordingly). > > What is the general opinion on that? I'm undecided. > > > Before that, I propose to remove the F2003/2008 finalization of > > structure and array constructors in 13- and 14-branches. I can see why > > it was removed from the standard in a correction to F2008 and think > > that it is likely to cause endless confusion and maintenance > > complications. However, finalization of function results within > > constructors will be retained. > > That, I agree with. Should it be noted somewhere as an intentional > deviation from the standard? > > Best regards > > Thomas > -- "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein
