I agree with OP but just for the sake of argument: You can use arrays as a member of a struct which also contains length, dimension and data specific details in

I agree with OP but just for the sake of argument: You can use arrays as a member of a struct which also contains length, dimension and data specific details in other variables. If the problem is that this not being part of the language means everyone will do this their own way and will have to write a ton of extra code to support this, then yeah, that sucks but are most things C not like that anyways?