Tom Clune

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One problem is that the paper on GitHub is of necessity out of date now. Once the paper is on J3 there are intellectual property issues with putting it back...

I too would prefer the inline notation, but subgroup so far has found that this would be very difficult to do. But it would be a good time to re-examine...

@jacobwilliams I'll definitely take a look. As you say, there are some built in limitations of what Fortran is that will prevent going down the same path as Julia. I...

My (vague) hope is that in any one layer you won't need to be explicitly aware of the nesting. E.g., the template does not need to know that the type...

Regarding the title: fair enough. In hindsight, my original title could have been misconstrued in a rather rude way were anyone so inclined. Changed.

No - this has not been directly discussed in the generics subgroup. Clearly it is a very important application, and we would not want to miss the opportunity to ensure...

Hmm. I see traits (by whatever means) as a mechanism to essentially express the sentiment: "Allow any type here, so long as the specified interfaces exist for that type." That...

Not terribly opposed to "property". It points in the right direction but is a bit of an all purpose word. Similar to "attribute" in that sense. Seems safe in the...

To be clear. That and the other examples that are currently in the repository are largely a capture of a prototyping discussion at the Tokyo meeting. (I'm not even sure...

PS - I encourage you to provide your improvements above as a PR.