Having the type of a variable be determined by the variable name is craziness. Which is why you always run with implicit none.
On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 4:02:02 PM UTC+2, LarryD wrote: > > How does this compare to the "old standard?" > > 1. Fortran requires every variable to have a defined type, but > automatically defaults to floating or integer type based on the first > letter of the variable name. Or, you can pre-define your own sets of > first-letter defaults with the Implicit command. Once you get used to this, > writing new code goes just as fast as if you didn't need to define types. > > 2. Optimizing compilers take care of most of the clean-up phase. No work > required. > > Larry > > On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 7:51:21 AM UTC-5, Sisyphuss wrote: >> >> The two-language problem refers to prototyping with one slow dynamic >> language and rewrite it with a fast static language for the final product. >> >> If Julia really solves the two-language problem, it should meet the >> following criteria: >> Let A be the code written during prototyping, B be the code written for >> the final product, with a small net increment $\Delta$, A+\Delta=B. >> >> If Julia uses one code style to do prototyping, and then uses a >> completely different style to write final product, then it can't be called >> the same language. At best, Julia turns the 2-language problem to a >> 1.5-language problem. >> >> >>
