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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: question about nullptr
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:42:14 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 21:49:10 -0700, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:

> ... although, one the second thought, one can probably start a Holy War
> about what a proper type-agnostic declaration of a `double` variable
> should look like
> 
>    double d = 0;
> 
> or
> 
>    auto d = 0.0;

How about

    integer, parameter :: useprec = kind(0.0d0)
    real(kind = useprec) :: altitude, next_altitude, next_velocity, fuel_rate, elapsed

Not quite full generics, but useful nonetheless.

(From a program I posted on comp.lang.fortran a few weeks ago.)