Hi,
I am wondering how does the generic operator works in case of an abstract class with a class(*) argument. The following code show an example, and the operator on the abstract class do not call the defined operator of intb even though the dynamic type is intb. Any thought on such design ? A solution will be to override lower_than in intb like that rocedure,private :: lower_than => lowerthan_intb with a class(*) and then do a select type. But i thought that if the dynamic type was intb then the generic function will find lowerthan_intb.
module tata
implicit none
type,abstract :: b_type
class(*),allocatable :: b
contains
procedure,private :: lower_than
generic,public :: operator(.lt.) => lower_than
end type
type,extends(b_type) :: intb
contains
procedure,private :: lowerthan_intb
generic,public :: operator(.lt.) => lowerthan_intb
end type
interface intb
module procedure :: intb_constructor
end interface
contains
function intb_constructor(i) result(a)
type(intb) :: a
integer :: i
allocate(a%b,source=i)
end function
function lowerthan_intb(a,b) result(r)
class(intb),intent(in) :: a,b
logical :: r
print *,'lowerthan intb'
select type(i1 => a%b)
type is(integer)
select type(i2 => b%b)
type is(integer)
r=i1<i2
end select
end select
end function
function lower_than(a,b)
class(b_type),intent(in) :: a
class(*),intent(in) :: b
logical :: lower_than
lower_than=.false.
print *, 'operator lower than class* no implementation'
end function
end module
program foo
use tata
implicit none
type(intb) :: d,d2
class(intb),allocatable :: cd,cd2
class(b_type),allocatable :: b1,b2
d=intb(1)
d2=intb(3)
allocate(cd,source=d)
allocate(cd2,source=d2)
print *,d<d2
allocate(b1,source=cd)
allocate(b2,source=cd2)
print *,'b1 extends btype to intb',extends_type_of(b1,d),same_type_as(b1,d)
print *,b1.lt.b2
print *,b1<b2
print *, cd<b1
end program