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| From: | =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Vorbr=FCggen?= <jvorbrueggen@mediasec.de> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers,comp.lang.pl1 |
| Date: | Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:09:28 +0200 |
| Organization: | MediaSec Technologies GmbH |
| References: | 07-08-01607-08-021 07-08-024 07-08-034 07-08-037 07-08-040 07-08-041 07-08-044 07-08-051 07-08-054 07-08-058 |
| Keywords: | Fortran |
| Posted-Date: | 21 Aug 2007 22:28:33 EDT |
Our esteemed moderator commented:
> [Fortran has backward compatibility issues going back to the 1950s.
Sure enough.
> You've always been able to pass any array element as an argument by
> address, and it's up to your code to get the array shapes
> right. The only descriptors are the lengths of character variables introduced
> in F77. -John]
Hmmm....for the current version of Fortran, that isn't true. Assumed shape
array - introduced some fifteen years ago in F90 - need to transport shape
information that is equivalent to a "descriptor". So do allocatable arrays and
array pointers.
Jan
[Oh, right. It's been a while. -John]
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