Re: defining an arbitrary type in your newer Fortrans

From: Jan Vorbrüggen <jvorbrueggen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:25:39 +0100

P.S. I dont consider "derived types" a good substitute.

Why not?

The textual edits, in C, that #define something for something else are a hack to paste over C's inadequate type system. There is no need for such in Fortran. Everything is nicely handled by derived types.

Jan
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