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
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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
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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