Forward into the past!

drw@kutta.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Tue, 31 Dec 1991 16:11:03 GMT

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From: drw@kutta.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Keywords: storage
Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA
References: 91-12-075 91-12-089
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1991 16:11:03 GMT

In article 91-12-089 wws@renaissance.cray.com (Walter Spector) writes:
      Some compilers support arrays which are dynamically sized when a context
      is entered. This is similar to a very useful Fortran-90 feature. It is
      supported by the GNU C compiler. I think it is recommended approach by
      the NCEG (Numerical C Extensions Group) too.


It's hard to resist noting that this feature was in Algol 60. That it
has taken C and Fortran 30 years to adopt it says something about the
computer community.


Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
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