Should elemental functions accept vector arguments?

[Beliavsky]

I suggested three years ago that elemental functions be allowed to have a mix of scalar and array arguments. They would only be elemental in the scalar arguments. I think your use case is different.

Partially elemental functions

Elemental functions are a neat feature of Fortran but are limited by the requirement that all arguments be scalars. Could this be relaxed to allow a mix of scalar and array arguments? A partially elemental function would be elemental for the scalar arguments, which in the caller would be scalars or conformable arrays as they are now. A function such as elemental function moment(power,offset,x) result(y) integer, intent(in) :: power real , intent(in) :: offset real , intent(in) :: x( real …