This was thoroughly discussed at the last meeting and this paragraph is
consistent with that discussion. The problem is that something in an opaque
object may change even though nothing accessible by the user changes. Thus
a rigorous classification may not be possible. If a rigorous classification
is used then every argument would be INOUT which would defeat the purpose of
INTENT. I would suggest adding that the rigor of the classification is
implementation dependent since most implementations probably do not want
rigorous classification, but some may want to do this if they want to
address FORTRAN 90 issues.
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