HP Fortran Programmer's Reference

Glossary
type
type See data type.
type declaration statement A statement
that specifies the data type and, optionally,
attributes for one or more constants,
functions, or variables.
typeless constants A literal constant
that is formatted to represent a bit pattern
and therefore does not imply the type of the
constant. BOZ constants and Hollerith
constants are both typeless.
unit number A logical number that can be
connected to a file to provide a means for
referring to the file in input/output
statements.
upper bounds See bounds.
use association The association of names
among different scoping units asspecified
by a USE statement. Seealsomodule.
user-defined operator See defined
operator.
user-defined assignment See defined
assignment.
variable A data object whose value may be
defined and redefined during a program’s
execution. For example, array elements or
array sections, named data objects,
structure components, and substrings
all can be variables.
vector subscript A method of referencing
multiple, possibly discontinuous elements
of an array by using a rank-one array of
integervaluesasasubscript.
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whole array An array reference—for
example, in a type declaration
statement—that consists of the array name
alone, without the subscript notation.
Whole array operations affect every
element in the array, not just a single,
subscripted element.
zero-sized array An array with at least
one dimension that has at least one extent
of zero. A zero-sized array has a size of zero
and contains no elements.
Glossary