Fortran Specialist Group Annual General Meeting 2024

1. Apologies for absence
2. Minutes of the previous AGM (28^th September 2023)
3. Matters arising
4. Chairman's report
5. Treasurer's report
6. Membership Secretary's report
7. Web Editor's report
8. Election of Officers and Committee members
   (The following is taken from the Fortran SG Constitution:
   The name of any member accepting nomination for election or re-election as an Officer or as a Committee member shall be submitted in writing to the Secretary 7 clear days prior to the date of the AGM by two members of the Group with the written consent of the nominee.
   "In writing" applies equally to email or paper copy.)
9. Future activities for the Group
10. Any other business
11. Date of next meeting

Joint meeting with Computational Physics Group of Institute of Physics

When the Fortran language committee first collected requests for new language features for what has now become the Fortran 2023 standard, support for generic programming emerged as a top priority. However, due to the anticipated complexity, a dedicated committee subgroup was formed, and implementation of generic programming was purposely spread across two language release cycles — aiming for what is internally referred to as F202Y. In this talk, I will begin with a brief overview of existing Fortran features that support generic programming and then proceed to a detailed examination of the plans for F202Y.

This discussion will include motivating use cases, type-safe design goals, (probable) syntax, and a few simple examples. I conclude with a discussion on the likely limitations of generic programming in F202Y and my expectations for extended capabilities in the subsequent release, F203X.

Discussion of the following topics:

• Generics in Fortran
• Discussoin of any AGM announcements