Support for other variable types about ford HOT 8 CLOSED

I agree with acroucher, this can be helpful for fortran-c mixing programs. However, one of the characteristic of Ford that I love is its KISS nature: it is designed for fortran, for fortran poor man. I think this is the reason why Ford is presently better than doxygen. I am afraid that trying to support also C Ford will become a poor brother of doxygen... I think that the suggestion of acroucher is the best way for improving Ford without losing its KISSness: let the user define additional regexs. But I prefer that Ford hard-core remains compliant with the Fortran standard.

This is only my modest opinion, my best regards,
Stefano

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Totally agree Stefano, I wasn't suggesting full C support in FORD, and I have no desire for FORD to try and become doxygen. The code I'm wanting to use FORD on isn't even mixed-language- it's all in fortran, it just links to a library that's written in C. If we could just allow the user to use other variable types I think that would be enough for my purposes.

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I will certainly look at doing this at some point. Unfortunately, given what my schedule is like, I probably won't be able to devote any time to it until April (or even later). What I don't understand is how you can get away with something like Vec :: v. I don't see how an include statement can get a Fortran compiler to recognize that syntax. Are they doing some very clever stuff with the precompiler?

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I'm not sure how it's done inside the library, but yes, that is the sort of syntax you use with PETSc.

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I don’t think that it’s include statements doing that, it’s other preprocessor statements like #define Var type(var) or some other macro expansion…

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Sure, this is a sort of preprocessing stuff, it is not a pure C definition.

see you soon

Il giorno 02:25 gio 12/feb/2015 Izaak Beekman [email protected] ha
scritto:

I don’t think that it’s include statements doing that, it’s other
preprocessor statements like #define Var type(var) or some other macro
expansion…

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Added this feature. See the wiki for documentation. The changes are reflected in the current GitHub version of the code but are not yet in PyPI. They will be shortly--I just have to decide whether to implement another new feature before I make a new release.

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Those changes are now available on PyPI.

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