Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!dik
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran vs. C for numerical work (SUMMARY)
Message-ID: <2656@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 6 Dec 90 16:11:47 GMT
References: <2173@tuvie> <1990Dec3.191100.22176@ariel.unm.edu> <4450@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Sender: news@cwi.nl
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 10

In article <4450@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
 >            The question stands:  is passing a scalar (D=0) or an array
 > taking D subscripts to a subprogram expecting an array taking E.ne.D
 > subscripts legal in standard Fortran 77?

Perfectly legal.  Note however that the first (pass a scalar when an array
is expected) is only valid if the scalar is an array element.
--
dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl