Re: Fortran Preprocessor?

Timothy Patrick Gallagher wrote:
I'm relatively new to Fortran but I've used C/C++ quite a bit...
The thing I miss the most is the ability to use #define to set
constants (I don't like using static/parameter memory variables).


I don't know whether you refer to C or to Fortran there. The analogy between Fortran and C is not very close; I don't know of anyone who prefers pre-processor macros to Fortran PARAMETER constants, even among those who use tradcpp heavily.
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