Fortran Glossary

Browse 3 fortran terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

3 Fortran Terms

Allocatable: In Fortran, an attribute applied to arrays (and since F2003, scalars) indicating that their storage is dynamically allocated and deallocated at runtime rather...
Common Block: A Fortran language construct that defines a named block of shared memory accessible by multiple program units, allowing subroutines to share data without...
Do-Loop: Do-Loop (or do-while loop) is a control flow statement that executes a block of code at least once and then repeatedly executes it as long as a specified...