logical

Date:

10-12-2011

NAME

LOGICAL - Converts between kinds of logical variables

SYNOPSIS

LOGICAL ([L=]l [,[KIND=]kind])

IMPLEMENTATION

Cray Linux Environment (CLE)

STANDARDS

Fortran

DESCRIPTION

The LOGICAL intrinsic function converts between kinds of logical variables. It accepts the following arguments:

l

Must be of type logical

kind

Must be a scalar integer initialization expression.

LOGICAL is an elemental function. The name of this intrinsic cannot be passed as an argument.

RETURN VALUES

The result type is logical. If kind is present, the kind type parameter is that specified by kind; otherwise, the kind type parameter is that of default logical. The value is that of l.

EXAMPLES

LOGICAL(L.OR..NOT.L) yields TRUE and is of type default logical, regardless of the kind type parameter of the logical variable L.