>> All in all I’m skeptical of adding even more old language extensions with >> little demand when we have a hard time filling up gaps in the standard. Each >> addition adds to maintainance load, especially as they might not interact >> too well with more modern features. (For example coarrays or BIND attribute, >> which were not around when AUTOMATIC was in use.) >> >> I don’t find any request for this feature in the whole bugzilla database. > > That's understandable. We'll maintain this feature in our own delta. I felt > it > was in the spirit of open source to offer it in case it was useful. > > Thanks for taking the time to review it.
I definitely appreciate your contribution! And because it is now archived in the mailing-list archives, if people are interested in the future they can definitely pick it up. It is a rather “standalone” patch, I don’t think it would bitrot fast. But maybe other developers feel differently about it, in which case we’ll have a more “technical” review (mostly of the testcases needed, I think). Thanks again, FX
