(j3.2006) Standard question regarding passing a scalar string to an array

Van Snyder van.snyder
Sun Feb 13 15:22:07 EST 2011


Aleksandar Donev wrote:
> I think Bill's interpretation is correct, though it makes no sense to 
> allow that kind of thing for characters. The reason we have the 
> exclusion is for sequence association for interop with C strings, where 
> the dummy may be a character array but the actual could be a substring 
> or a scalar. Here there is no sequence association, and so it seems to 
> me like we ought to fix those words...
>   

If I remember correctly, the exception for characters was in Fortran 
77.  I don't at the moment have a 77 standard at hand, so I might be 
mistaken.

> But anyway, this I do know:
>
> On 02/13/11 11:51, Bill Long wrote:
>   
>> Now that we have the concept of "contiguous" in the standard, the 
>> current "is not an assumed-shape, pointer, or polymorphic array" seems 
>> equivalent to "is simply contiguous and not polymorphic". Probably "is 
>> simply contiguous" would be sufficient, since that's the operational 
>> requirement. 
>>     
> We had an explicit discussion and decided we did not want to extend 
> sequence association to all simply contiguous arrays, that is, we 
> decided it was for legacy purposes only and we were not going to add to it.
>
> Best,
> Aleks
>
>   




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