(j3.2006) Question about DIM

[Bill Long]

Perhaps a more interesting question is whether this relic is actually used?   I can?t remember ever seeing it, though with only 48 years of Fortran programming experience, I?m a relative newcomer. :) 

If there was any motivation to update DIM, more interesting questions would be

1) If X-Y is -0.0, is the result 0.0 or -0.0?

2) If X-Y is NaN, what is the result?

Cheers,
Bill



On Jan 10, 2016, at 11:32 PM, Van Snyder <van.snyder at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Does anybody remember a compelling reason why the arguments of DIM are
> required to be of the same type and kind, whereas, e.g., the arguments
> of DOT_PRODUCT can be any numeric type and kind with the type and kind
> of the result determined as for the product VECTOR_A*VECTOR_B?
> 
> Why not allow X and Y to be either integer or real, of any kind,
> independently, with the type and kind of the result as if for X-Y as
> specified in 7.1.9.3?
> 
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