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How to support inheritance and run-time polymorphism in Fortran 90

✍ Scribed by Viktor K. Decyk; Charles D. Norton; Boleslaw K. Szymanski

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1998
Tongue: English
Weight: 617 KB
Volume: 115
Category: Article
ISSN: 0010-4655
DOI: 10.1016/s0010-4655(98)00101-5

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✦ Synopsis

Fortran 90 does not support automatic inheritance and run-time polymorphism as language mechanisms. This paper discusses techniques for software emulation of inheritance and polymorphism in Fortran 90, which simplifies the implementation of an object-oriented programming style in Fortran 90.