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Clive Page wrote: > I quite agree. I apologise if I haven't been keeping up at the back, but > I'm still slightly confused about what F2002 is going to bring us. At > present (in F95) there are three main circumstances in which you need to > use pointers: > 1. When you _really_ want a pointer, e.g. for a linked-list. > 2. When you want an allocatable component of a derived type. > 3. When you want to hand an array over as an actual arg to return filled > but don't know how many values will be returned so you can't allocate > it in advance. > F2002 solves (2), does it also solve (3)? I'm coming a bit late in this conversation (been attending a workshop at the UK Met. Office the last few days) - but isn't (1) just a specific example of (2) ? -- Toon Moene - mailto:[log in to unmask] - phoneto: +31 346 214290 Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html GNU Fortran 95: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ (under construction) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%