Ada and Modern Fortran

[Beliavsky]

@shahmoradi

runtime-initialized module constants would be extremely useful and would enhance the safety of Fortran programs. These are constants that have to be initialized once at runtime (as opposed to compile-time), but should not be changed anymore throughout the life of the program. I have heard that Ada has such a functionality (don’t remember the technical term for it) but it is missing in Fortran.

This was also requested in the thread User defined functions in constant expressions.