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Association

A pointer's association status is one of

Some care has to be taken not to leave a pointer ``dangling'' by use of DEALLOCATE on its target without NULLIFYing any other pointer referring to it.

The intrinsic function ASSOCIATED can test the association status of a defined pointer: 

               IF (ASSOCIATED(pointer)) THEN
or between a defined pointer and a defined target (which may, itself, be a pointer): 

               IF (ASSOCIATED(pointer, target)) THEN


Janne Saarela
Tue May 16 13:43:26 METDST 1995