Re: It Hurts When I Do This

On 21 apr, 21:13, nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Richard Maine) wrote:

> I think it is much more natural that, if someone writes
>
>   X = something
>
> then they probably want X to end up having the same size or length as
> the something. I think that the resistance to this reflects being
> trained in prior Fortran practice, as distinguished from ab initio
> reevaluations of natural useability. Alternatively, maybe it's just that
> my intuition is different.
>

I was rather delighted to see this feature in Fortran 2003:
It makes working with array-valued functions a lot easier and
it is something that comes very natural in dynamic (or scripting)
languages
(allocation and deallocation is hidden from the user in most if not
all of them).

Regards,

Arjen