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Formal Syntax and Some Additional Features

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Introducing Fortran 90

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The aims of this chapter are to introduce formal definitions of a number of concepts and also look at some of the more advanced features of Fortran 90, in particular:

  • program units

  • functions

  • subroutines

  • modules

  • scope

  • modules and scope

    • public

    • private

    • rename

  • optional arguments

Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders.

(“What does ‘under the name mean’ asked Christopher Robin, “It means he had the name over the door in gold letters and lived under it”…)

A. A. Milne., Winnie-the-Pooh.

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Chivers, I.D., Sleightholme, J. (1995). Formal Syntax and Some Additional Features. In: Introducing Fortran 90. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3031-4_25

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