Topic: what are conforant arrays? (was X3J11 technical report (was Apology to Jeff Kuehn.))
Author: dmk@dmk.com (David Keaton)
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 1994 15:18:26 GMT Raw View
In article <3284en$fab@ritz.cec.wustl.edu> sg3235@shelob.sbc.com writes:
>What are [conformant] arrays?
Think ISO Level 1 Pascal. You pass an array into a function and
the function has a way of finding out its dimensions. One way of
adding such a thing to C might look like this.
int f(int n, int m, float a[n][m]) { . . . }
David Keaton
dmk@dmk.com
Author: jaf3@ritz.cec.wustl.edu (John Andrew Fingerhut)
Date: 9 Aug 1994 09:39:19 -0500 Raw View
In article <rfgCu8ED6.25F@netcom.com> rfg@netcom.com (Ronald F. Guilmette) writes:
>While C and C++ do provide support for multidimensional arrays, Jeff Kuehn
>and many others do indeed have a legitimate gripe about the lack of con-
>formant array support in these languages.
What are confmant arrays?
Stephen Gevers
sg3235@shelob.sbc.com