I want to apologiz for verbally slicing and dicing Jeff Kuehn folloing his
posting in which he bemoaned the lack of proper support for ``multidimensional
arrays'' in C++.

Apparently, what he *meant* to bemoan the lack of was what is commonly
called ``conformant'' arrays.

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.  (And this concern has already
been addressed... at least for C... to a great degree by the work of the
Numerical C Extensions Group, now a part of the X3J11 C standardization
committee.  It remains to be seen whether or not that work, which has been
approved by X3J11 for inclusion into a forthcoming non-normative technical
report, will or will not be likewise embraced by the X3J16 and/or WG21 C++
standardization committees.  To the best of my knowledge neither X3J16 nor
WG21 are planning on incorporating the NCEG conformant array proposals
into the C++ standard at this time.  Public expressions of concern about
this issue might conceivable cause these groups to change their plans
however.)

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