Hi Andrew, Alan, introducing more F95 features seems a worthwhile project.
As for the non-standard intrinsics, I think I know a workaround. But I will inspect the examples in the coming few days/weeks to see what we can achieve. Regards, Arjen On 2011-10-19 19:52, Andrew Ross wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:39:28AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: >> Hi Arjen: >> >> Now that you have put in a notice in README.release about the future >> deprecation of our f77 bindings and examples, and Andrew has done such >> great work making our f95 bindings and examples much more compliant >> with the Fortran 95 standard, I think our next obvious Fortran step is >> to follow up by using more of the power of Fortran 95 in our f95 >> examples. >> >> For example, I understand that intrinsic functions like sin, cos, >> etc., can take array arguments and return the corresponding array >> results (just like the corresponding numpy Python capability that is >> used in examples/python/xw??.py) so using this Fortran 95 capability >> should eliminate many of the do loops in our examples. >> >> That is just one Fortran 95 capability we are currently not using in >> our f95 examples, but I am sure you can find some more since most of >> our f95 examples started life as a copy of our f77 examples. So could >> you please review some of our f95 examples and list how they could be >> simplified/modernized by using the full powers of Fortran 95? >> >> I would be very happy to learn more about Fortran 95 capability so >> once you have put together such a list and demonstrated what needs to >> be done for one our more complicated examples (say, example 16), I >> would be willing to help with some of the editing work required to >> propagate such simplification/modernization changes to all our f95 >> examples. > > I have changed a few things which were not wrong, but were not the > f95 way of doing it, e.g. variable definitions. There is a lot more > that could be done. > > One thing I didn't add - if you want to compile the f95 bindings with > -std=f95 at the moment, you also need to add -fall-intrinsics to work > around the non-f95 intrinsics we currently use. This is a bit of a > sledge hammer approach, but is useful to know for now while we consider > which standard we want to follow. > > Andrew > DISCLAIMER: This message is intended exclusively for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately and destroy this message. Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The foundation 'Stichting Deltares', which has its seat at Delft, The Netherlands, Commercial Registration Number 41146461, is not liable in any way whatsoever for consequences and/or damages resulting from the improper, incomplete and untimely dispatch, receipt and/or content of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
