------- Comment #4 from jvdelisle at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-01-14 03:30 ------- I propose that we close this as WONT FIX as well, for three reasons:
1) There are other ways to do these things and it is not necessary to use internal I/O to do it. Character strings can be used for format strings and they are fully addressable down to individual characters or sections within the string, allowing one to easily assemble format strings on the fly. The need to do this seems obscure. 2) Though some members of the gcc/gfortran team have and do comment to the Fortran standards committee, we are not the standards committee. For whatever reasons, the committee already rejected VFEs. It is the purpose of this committee to discuss and make such decisions. 3) It appears that this feature is a legacy feature. IMHO (really) it is a feature that leads to obtuse code and possibly self modifying code. I do not think it promotes best practices regarding software design and programming. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38830