[J3] 15.5.2.5 Allocatable and pointer dummy variables

[Malcolm Cohen]

> The statement on the response to F08/0059 that "the imposition of these 
requirements to the auto-targetting feature was an oversight" seems to 
create an "asymmetry" between what is allowed for pointers and what is 
allowed for allocatables.



Well, pointer and allocatable differ in many ways. In particular, there is no allocatable equivalent to pointer assignment, and thus there can be no allocatable equivalent to “auto-targetting”.

 

Cheers,

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..............Malcolm Cohen, NAG Oxford/Tokyo.

 

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