Conformant Arrays in C

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2336 at umd5.umd.edu> chris at trantor.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
>So why is this solution insufficient?

Because it's a pain in the lower part of the anatomy!
Or, in other words, just because it is theoretically sufficient
does not mean that it is convenient.
This is one of the limitations of C that Fortran programmers
have difficulty with; they're used to being able to write
reasonable array manipulation routines.