On Sep 23, 5:46pm, Thorsten Ohl wrote:
> Subject: Re: A rare behaivor of pointers
...
> The area where the undifined status hurts (me) most is the need to use
> pointers as poor man's allocatable components in user defined types.
> F95 helps a lot and F2K will (hopefully) be even better.
Sorry, but why does it hurt you there especially? I mean, when
you allocate a user-defined type, you have to initialize all the
components explicitly (F90) or implicitly (F95). Why is this problem
worse here than elsewhere?
-P.
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