@everythingfunctional , @certik:
Apologies: please note I miswrote above implying simpler syntax. Actually what I really meant was simpler semantics. Consider this simple case brought up by @certik: it is truly debatable whether the TEMPLATE construct, as per Fortran 202Y proposal, needs to define a “template” INTERFACE therein only to encapsulate what is a templated procedure in log10_local, as in the illustration by @everythingfunctional above.
Something seriously does not appear right here.
This requires serious thought and for various Fortran practitioners who are deeply interested in Generics such as @plevold and @shahmoradi et al. to think through this deeply and to give feedback which the Generics subgroup must review. If the underlying aspects such as these are not designed well, there will be no later simplification or enhancement viable, the feature will be doomed and a lot of practitioners will not use it. Fortran needs to get Generics right.