(j3.2006) TRANSFER

[Bill Long]

On 12/3/10 1:20 AM, Robert Corbett wrote:
> An engineer at Oracle recently asked me if the actual
> argument passed to the argument MOLD of the intrinsic
> function TRANSFER can be polymorphic.  If so, he wanted
> to know if the declared type should be used or the
> dynamic type.  I searched Clause 13 for the answer, but
> I found nothing.  I told him to assume that it is allowed,
> and that the declared type should be used.  Did I miss
> something in the standard that answers his question?
>

Generally, the convention is that "type" of an object, without either 
'dynamic' or 'declared' modifier,  means its dynamic type.   In this 
particular case, that would seem to make the most sense anyway. 
Typically, you would write

x =transfer(y, MOLD=x)

and you want the bits of the actual object x to be the bits of y for the 
type of x at that particular point in the program's execution (which is 
the definition of dynamic type).

Cheers,
Bill


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