(j3.2006) Future deprecation of overriding character length, dimension and codimension

[Bill Long]

On Feb 23, 2017, at 10:06 AM, Clune, Thomas L. (GSFC-6101) <thomas.l.clune at nasa.gov> wrote:

> Agreed.  Also, though perhaps I?m misunderstanding Malcolm?s intent, I think those are also useful when working with an automatic code generator.   It helps to avoid the 132 character limit if attributes are on separate lines and variable names get long:
> 
> REAL(kind=REAL32) :: <long-variable-name>
> DIMENSION :: <long-variable-name>(:,:,:)
> ALLOCATABLE :: <long-variable-name>
> 
> Though, I think the proper fix here is to allow lines to be much longer than 132 characters.   (I know, any upper limit will be too small, but O(1000) would solve most preprocessing/code-generation issues I?ve encountered.)

But certainly the simple fix for this problem is

REAL(kind=REAL32),DIMENSION(:,:,:),ALLOCATABLE :: &
   <long-variable-name>

or, maybe better,

REAL(kind=REAL32),ALLOCATABLE :: &
   <long-variable-name>(:,:,:)

Automatic code generators can certainly be trained to generate statement continuations. 


Cheers,
Bill


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