Fortran - Re: C String Prefix Operator Idea (Was: gfortran diagnostics and so

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Re: C String Prefix Operator Idea (Was: gfortran diagnostics and so

jamesgiles@att.net

2007-11-24, 7:10 pm

I tend to disagree with both the idea of making the
operator elemental and with leaving the null off the
end. The latter will almost certainly confuse those
that expect the operation to work for c interop.
The former requires more of those unfortunate pad
blanks. With the advent of f2003 and genuinely
variable length strings having operations that
blank pad independently of the assignment operation
will not seem particularly desirable. Being able
to distinguish genuinely significant trailing blanks
from padding is something I need much more often than
elemental operation.

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J. Giles

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