Fortran Data Types Declaration and attributes
Example
Throughout the topics and examples here we'll see many declarations of variables, functions and so on.
As well as their name, data objects may have attributes. Covered in this topic are declaration statements like
integer, parameter :: single_kind = kind(1.)
which gives the object single_kind the parameter attribute (making it a named constant).
There are many other attributes, like
targetpointeroptionalsave
Attributes may be specified with so-called attribute specification statements
integer i ! i is an integer (of default kind)...
pointer i ! ... with the POINTER attribute...
optional i ! ... and the OPTIONAL attribute
However, it is generally regarded to be better to avoid using these attribute specification statements. For clarity the attributes may be specified as part of a single declaration
integer, pointer, optional :: i
This also reduces the temptation to use implicit typing.
In most cases in this Fortran documentation this single declaration statement is preferred.
