Project Strings: improving strings support || Blog Post #10 || GSoC

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Hello everyone!,

This post is regarding GSoC project on improving strings support in Fortran.

I invite everyone to leave their opinions/feedbacks on the functionalities that are currently in discussion. If you have any functionality in your mind to propose or discuss, please feel free to tag me (@Aman-Godara).

Currently in discussion:

1). move_alloc for strings #449

Linked PR: #467

2). Revival String list #268

Linked PR: #470

Please use the above given link(s) to know more about the functionality, linked PRs (Pull Requests) and to join the discussion.

Work done in last week

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1). move_alloc for strings #449

Linked PR: #467
Current Status: PR under review

2). Revival String list #268

Linked PR: #470
Current Status: WIP

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This week was about resolving some bugs and lots of syntax errors, checking the robustness of the design and taking community’s review. Drawing a mental map imagining myself as a user of the API and switching back to the position of a developer of the API to come up with more intuitive API for a user (basically trying to think what mental map of the API a user would draw while using the APIs). Thought of other possible designs but found them confusing (non-intuitive) for a user.

Within a day insert_at and get API will be ready to test.