A Cautionary Tale on Object-Oriented Programming

[Beliavsky]

@rwmsu

Adopting an object- based design approach allows you to think objectively but implement things in a (semi) procedural manner without decending into the seven levels of hell that is SELECT TYPE etc. Plus you have a better chance of avoiding the inevitable ICE that comes with a buggy compiler OOP implementation. (I have a code that will compile correctly with gfortran, ifort, and (now) ifx but refused to compile with any of the other LLVM based compilers).

In Understanding the need for class variables and select type @everythingfunctional wrote

My recommendations are that one should use type , or carefully design deferred type bound procedures defined by the type that one will declare variables of class of such that any select type s will be unnecessary.

and I gave a simple example of this, which works at least with gfortran.