(j3.2006) (j3.2005) allocate / assignment

[Bill Long]

Aleksandar Donev wrote:

>On Tuesday 28 November 2006 16:09, Bill Long wrote:
>  
>
>>ALLOCATE(NEW, SOURCE=OLD)
>>Is the effect of the allocate statement any different (assuming NEW is
>>unallocated before) from this assignment?
>>NEW = OLD
>>    
>>
>I believe they are identical. We only added "polymorphic assignment" for 
>allocatables recently---in F2003 the rhs could not be polymorphic. So one had 
>to use SOURCE=.
>  
>

Actually, I think it was the lhs (the <variable>) that could not be 
polymorphic in f03. 

Cheers,
Bill


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