[MPI3 Fortran] Results of San Jose Forum meeting

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Mar 11 2010, Jeff Squyres wrote:
>
> There certainly is an elegance to having no MPI handle conversion 
> functions between use mpi/use mpi3/mpif.h. It would have been nice to 
> avoid the lookup, but a) the cost really doesn't matter, and b) I think 
> the usability issue is nice (i.e., assignment), even if none of the other 
> benefits work out. But I'm not tied strongly to either way.

I don't find that having to define the internals of a derived type any
more elegant than defining two functions (or a single subroutine).

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.