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| Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Gary Scott |
| Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa |
| 13 Oct 24 20:41:45 |
From: ldo@nz.invalid On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 09:12:15 -0500, Gary Scott wrote: > On 10/13/2024 7:18 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote: >> >> What do you use the equivalences for? > > About the only thing I've used it for is for performing mathematical > operations on things like characters for encryption or compression > algorithms. Using a function for that doesn't appeal to me. Builtin functions/methods are the way that sort of thing is done in all the proper high-level languages. If you are afraid of code efficiency, don’t be; the compiler knows how to generate good code for its own intrinsics. --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) |
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