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From: akcs.fish@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gil Winograd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Why does C hate 2d arrays?
Message-ID: <265e1de4-26d.17comp.lang.c-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 26 May 90 09:55:04 GMT
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Recently I had to write C code to handle a data structure which
consisted of *variably dimensioned* AND *variable size per dimension*
arrays. Of course, it was implemented as a one-dimensional array,
through which I had to go through involved calculations to get the
index right
! (Especially when doing loops through some of the dimensions but
not others...) Does Algol/Pascal handle this situation any better?

-* Gil