# Pure procedure and intent(out) polymorphic pointer argument

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> [@gronki](#):
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> I guess I know what next feature will be coming to LFortran 🙂

We already have this in our TODO list after beta, but I just created a dedicated issue: [Reference counted pointers · Issue #5382 · lfortran/lfortran · GitHub](https://github.com/lfortran/lfortran/issues/5382).

Here are past relevant discussions and proposals:

- [Reference counted pointer · Issue #334 · j3-fortran/fortran\_proposals · GitHub](https://github.com/j3-fortran/fortran_proposals/issues/334)
- [Ownership for Fortran pointers](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/ownership-for-fortran-pointers/8084)

But I haven’t seen mentioned there that possibly the existing `pointer`s in Fortran could be implemented like that. Definitely worth investigating!

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