[J3] ballot #38

[Gary Klimowicz]

On Jan 31, 2022, at 22:04, Malcolm Cohen via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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> > From my experience with other languages with duck typing,
>  
> Duck typing is a dynamic typing system that has nothing whatsoever to do with Fortran sequence types. Nothing. It is used in languages that don’t have strong typing; Fortran is a strongly typed language.
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> Fortran sequence types do not even use structural typing (which is the closest static equivalent to “duck typing”.

Thank you, Malcolm. I stand corrected.

Is there a well-known name that corresponds to the Fortran type model? (I'm about to do a literature search for a class I'm taking.)

Best regards,

Gary


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