(j3.2006) TRANSFER

[Van Snyder]

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 13:37 -0800, Bill Long wrote:
> 
> 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).

Or you could use a Select Type construct....

> Cheers,
> Bill
> 
> 
> > Bob Corbett
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