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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Get rid of special cases to enable more compiler warnings","articleBody":"A good summary with good points. \r\n\r\n1. There is a set of FP comparisons in HOHQMesh that can be eliminated, and I am doing that now on a local branch. But we will have to keep the others in here unless someone comes up with a \"safe\" way to do floating point comparisons without having to compare to 0.0 at some point. It is also part of the API for FTValue that will convert an FP number to logical depending on if the argument is 0 or not zero. (I guess that could be fixed with a cast to integer.)\r\n2. I have used the no-op kind of trick in a few places. (e.g.          IF(self % refCount() \u003e= 0)     CONTINUE )\r\nBut since the code has been written over the course of a decade, features have been added, but not necessarily retroactively. The whole issue is a quirk of the fortran language which requires explicit passing of the this/self object even if it is not used.\r\n3. I used count because that's what is used elsewhere (other languages/frameworks) for counting the number of objects in a collection, and is shorter than \"numberOfObjects\", but it is easy to find and could be changed. I'll look into that.\r\n4. It is interesting that implicit procedures are now considered something to warn about, since has been an integral part of the language since the 1950's. Depending on dependency ordering, the fix is pretty easy simply by putting those routines in a module. The advantage of implicit interfaces is lack of dependencies, making compilation easier. The disadvantage is there is no checks on arguments. The makefiles would have to be modified for the new dependencies. HOHQMesh has a lot of files with implicit interfaces.\r\n\r\n_Originally posted by @DavidAKopriva in https://github.com/trixi-framework/FTObjectLibrary/issues/8#issuecomment-856889827_","author":{"url":"https://github.com/sloede","@type":"Person","name":"sloede"},"datePublished":"2021-06-08T18:39:21.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/9/FTObjectLibrary/issues/9"}