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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Address of array
Message-ID: <346@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 30-Mar-86 20:20:28 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.346
Posted: Sun Mar 30 20:20:28 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 2-Apr-86 03:14:08 EST
References: <750@abic.UUCP> <2293@utcsri.UUCP> <313@hadron.UUCP> <150@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP> <807@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: "Fortranian" (*sigh*)

In article <807@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>In article <150@sdchema.sdchem.UUCP>, tps@sdchem.UUCP (Tom Stockfisch) writes:
>>[]
>>Joe Yao replies
>>>array:  that is a Pasqualische or Fortranian notion.
>
>'Scuse me, can somebody educate me as to why that would be a "Fortranian"
Dan,

I've already recanted that whole posting.  It was written after
midnight or something [;-}].  What I think I meant was that Fortran,
like Pascal, allows you to declare an object to be of a certain
size; and the functions that operate on it know what that size was.
Compare this to C, where you have to explicitly declare what the
object you're pointing to is, before knowing its size.  Then you can
declare a pointer to the first of a sequence of arrays of a given
size.

Fortran doesn't even have pointers anyway.	(*sigh*)
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}