Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!ags From: ags@j.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: IMAG generic FORTRAN 77 function Message-ID: <6397@j.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 10 Feb 88 14:28:12 GMT References: <8802092150.AA14785@jade.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: ags@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Dave Seaman) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 13 In article <8802092150.AA14785@jade.berkeley.edu> AER7101@TECHNION.BITNET (Zvika Bar-Deroma) writes: >Hello, >Could anyone tell me if the usage of IMAG as a generic name (for AIMAG) >is according to ANSI 77 or is it some vendors' extension. There is no generic name corresponding to the specific name AIMAG in the standard. The point of having generic names is to allow an intrinsic to apply to more than one data type, but that isn't possible with AIMAG. The argument type can only be COMPLEX. -- Dave Seaman ags@j.cc.purdue.edu