Yes, you can do all sort of tricks in C++. You can also package them into a "matrix" class, or use one of the thousands that are publicly available. The thing

Yes, you can do all sort of tricks in C++. You can also package them into a "matrix" class, or use one of the thousands that are publicly available. The thing is that, in Fortran (and even in C), you don't need any of this because the construction is part of the language itself.