From: "Jean Vézina" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 8:36 AM
> The parameterized module facility would be fine for me (J3/05-195). Also, the exception handling
> facilities you describe
> in Fortran Forum would provide exactly what is needed for the second item I mentioned.
> Unsigned integers would be really convenient for doing image and signal processing.
> It is annoying to have to use the character data type to
> store pixels and then convert to integer to do the processing and back to character to save the
> output.
It's fairly trivial to convert between integer to character.
In compilers that do not support 8-bit integers,
reading and writing characters is the only way to deal with image processing.
See
Introduction to Fortran 90/95, Algorithms, and Structured Programming.
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