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From: Larry Gates <la...@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: how to declare doubles in f95
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:30:13 -0700
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On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:37:04 -0800, Richard Maine wrote:

>>  But what does it avail you to have dp if you don't
>> have the tag to hang on your constants?
> 
> I don't understand your comment about not having a "tag to hang on your
> constants." It sounds like you don't think you can portably determine
> the appropriate kind value for double precision. On the contrary, that
> is trivial to do. See the kind intrinsic. Kind(0.0d0) is the idiomatic
> way to determine that kind value.

What I meant here is if you declare

double precision xx

as opposed to 

integer, parameter :: dp = selected_real_kind(12,30)
real(kind=dp) :: xx

then you don't have _dp to hang on your constants, which I greatly prefer
to the dO in its stead.  I appear to have a different imagination than you,
one that avoids things that look like dO, in particular because the 0 and O
keys are adjacent.
-- 
larry gates

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