Type Declaration Statements

A type declaration statement explicitly specifies the properties of data objects or functions. For more information, see Type Declarations in the A to Z Reference.

This section also discusses:

• Declaration Statements for Noncharacter Types
• Declaration Statements for Character Types
• Declaration Statements for Derived Types
• Declaration Statements for Arrays

For More Information:

• See Derived data types.
• See the DATA statement.
• See Initialization expressions.
• On specific kind parameters of intrinsic data types, see Intrinsic Data Types.
• On implicit typing, see Implicit Typing Rules.
• On explicit typing, see Specification of Data Type.