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Re: Structures [message #42904 is a reply to message #23873]

Wed, 02 March 2005 09:04

Michael Wallace
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Registered: December 2003

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> p.s. As an aside - in this context, this is another reason I like
> Fortran90/95 pointers. The dereferencing is implicit (i.e. no "*" out
> the front) so your accessing code doesn't have to change when you modify
> your structure to use allocatable pointers rather than fixed size
> arrays. E.g. in f95, ss(3)%s(20) gets the same info whether or not the
> "s" component is a fixed size array or a pointer in it's definition.

Same is true of Java. Everything in Java, except the primitive types,
are actually pointers, but those details are hidden from you. In Java
it's even possible to define a multi-dimensional array such the length
of the extra dimensions is variable. :-o

-m

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		Structures: By: Chris Bull on Wed, 21 February 2001 11:15
		Re: Structures By: marc schellens[1] on Wed, 02 March 2005 19:14
		Re: Structures By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 March 2005 09:36
		Re: Structures By: Benjamin Hornberger on Wed, 02 March 2005 09:33
		Re: Structures By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 02 March 2005 09:31
		Re: Structures By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 02 March 2005 09:04
		Re: Structures By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 02 March 2005 08:59
		Re: Structures By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Wed, 02 March 2005 07:33
		Re: Structures By: marc schellens[1] on Tue, 01 March 2005 19:43
		Re: Structures By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 March 2005 16:49
		Re: Structures By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 01 March 2005 16:40
		Re: Structures By: mperrin+news on Tue, 01 March 2005 16:21
		Re: Structures By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Tue, 01 March 2005 14:39
		Re: Structures By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 01 March 2005 14:38
		Re: Structures By: David Fanning on Tue, 01 March 2005 13:52

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