Next: M.E. Bailey, Director Up: Research Previous: C.S. Jeffery, Research Astronomer Contents . Dr Michael Smith has focused mainly on the earliest stages of stellar evolution: the processes leading to star formation from an initially unstable, collapsing cloud of gas, and the energetic outflows -- jets and winds -- associated with the formation and early evolution of protostars and pre-main-sequence stellar objects. ... Spectacular jets of molecules, however, betray its presence. ...

... 17.1 New features . ... Pure procedures . ... A function NULL to nullify a pointer . ... Complete version of END INTERFACE Pure functions are functions without side effects, and elemental functions are pure functions with only scalar arguments and with scalar result. ... Elemental functions are pure functions with only scalar dummy arguments (not pointers or procedures) and with scalar result (not pointer). That a function is elemental can be indicated with the new ELEMENTAL prefix. ...