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Yes, but pitfalls were added to the feature in Fortran '90 and it should now be generally avoided.
by pklausler 1y ago
Yes, but pitfalls were added to the feature in Fortran '90 and it should now be generally avoided.
- TheRealKing 1y agoI strongly disagree. Arbitrary bounds are tremendously helpful in dealing with arrays whose starting point must be offset.
- pklausler 1y agoI didn't say that they were not helpful; I said they have dangerous pitfalls. Also, they're not perfectly portable. My testing shows that only two compilers get lower bounds right in all the tricky cases that I know of.