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From: hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Better ways of expressing "KIND"
Message-ID: <657hallidayd@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 89 22:40:22 GMT
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From message <172@unmvax.unm.edu> by Walt Brainerd (brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu)
>You don't need to worry about the machine numbers for KIND of integer
>and real unless you want to.  You can get default and you can specify
>range and precision, as in
>
>REAL (SELECTED_REAL_KIND (9, 70) X
                                 ^ missing a ) I presume?
>
>which gives X 9 digits of precision and a range to 10**70.
>This is not as beautiful as previously proposed, but does provide
>the functionality and avoids some problems.

So we will be able to select KIND of integer by range?  Is it something
like SELECTED_INTEGER_KIND(lowest, highest) or some such?  If so, I will
be sufficiently happy (concerning this issue).

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