Fwd: Re: slightly OT: nullifying an array of pointers

[Paul Thomas]

Daniel,

>Paul,
>thanks for the quote =)
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>>However, you can achieve what you want with an derived type constructor:
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>> array = intptr (null())
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>Although this is standard conforming fortran, the quote from Scott
>Meyers holds nevertheless:
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What on earth are you talking about?

>"The built-in types both set expectations in the reader and offer a
>spec for the writer: 'When in doubt, do as the ints do'." [1,2]
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>Sometimes it's not that easy ...
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These quotes about C++ have nothing whatsoever to do with the use of 
structure constructors in gfortran; the structure constructor in fortran 
is effectively a specific inline function that loads the fields of a 
particular type of structure.  There is absolutely no C++-ness in it 
whatsoever.

Don't look for problems where there are none.  Fortran-95 remains a 
wysiwyg of programming langauges.

Paul