[MPIWG Fortran] pair types proposal

[Bill Long]

Fortran 90 had derived types, and Fortran 2003 had BIND(C) derived types - essentially C structs.  I don’t see the logic of inventing an archaic “create type” routine when the user could just declared the required type directly. 

Cheers,
Bill


> On Nov 10, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Jeff Hammond <jeff.science at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Given that Fortran 90+ has user-defined types, I don't see any reason why we can't allow these to be used to make MPI_M**LOC reductions more useful in Fortran.  See the following ticket for details.  Please add comments to the GitHub issue.
> 
> https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-issues/issues/70
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
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