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From: myb100@csc.anu.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Education for Fortran 90
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.144822.2854@csc.anu.oz.au>
Date: 18 Sep 90 04:48:21 GMT
References: <58199@masscomp.ccur.com> <63197@lanl.gov>
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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In article <63197@lanl.gov>, jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
> From article <58199@masscomp.ccur.com>, by andyo@masscomp.ccur.com (Andy Oram):
>> [...]
>> 	Brainerd, Walter S., Charles H. Goldberg, and Jeanne C. Adams,
>> 	Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90, Intertext Publications, McGraw-Hill
>> 	Book Company, New York, 1990.
> 
> Brainerd, et. al. is very biased in favor of the new standard.  The book
> glosses quickly over the really ugly features of the proposed standard.
> If they aren't worth being written up in detail - not even by members
> of the committee, why are they in the proposal (in particular: pointers
> to array sections - a quick glance reveals ther're redundant with no
> useful functionality - above book mentions them, but gives no examples
> of their use).

> J. Giles

Pardon my ignorance - but what do you mean by 'pointers to array sections' ?

Am I wrong in guessing (probably, yes :-) ) that these are the addresses
where a particular section (say a row/column, can't remember which) of an
array starts ? If this is the case I can suggest something useful for them.

(If they're not, I'll just quietly crawl away again :-) )

Thanks

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