Group: comp.lang.fortran · Group Profile · Search for Uncessary in comp.lang.fortran
Author: none
Date: Apr 18, 2008 11:25
...'wildcard', using (:), but that this usually hindered optimisation - and in the specific example in his article, prevented the user from getting the result wanted. Adding a new construct for such a specific operation - retrieving the whole array - when there are already two mechanisms for doing this - , on the grounds that this would 'clarify' the array retrieval, seems an uncessary burden.
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