Re: a history question

From: Arjen Markus (arjen.markus_at_wldelft.nl)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:02:28 +0200

Paul Van Delst wrote:
>
> Arjen Markus wrote:
> > Richard Edgar wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'm not certain of the answer to either question - although I very much
> >>doubt that the second one is possible, given that as things stand I have
> >>to reimplement a linked list for every new datatype.
> >>
> >>Richard
> >
> > Ah, that is not quite true: I have built a small library for dealing with
> > trees. I can store any data type in the nodes of these trees. The trick is
> > to use the not-so-well-known intrinsic function transfer().
>
> Oo... care to elaborate on the details? I put some linked-list code together for a
> particular application/data type, but I would really love to use the list code for other,
> arbitrary data types (without writing interfaces for each one).
>
> cheers,
>
> paulv

I can send you the source code - at least an early but very much working
version of it.
(I may even be tempted to write about it in a Fortran Forum article :))

Regards,

Arjen

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