XPost: comp.lang.pl1   
   From: jvorbrueggen@mediasec.de   
      
   Our esteemed moderator commented:   
   > [Fortran has backward compatibility issues going back to the 1950s.   
      
   Sure enough.   
      
   > You've always been able to pass any array element as an argument by   
   > address, and it's up to your code to get the array shapes   
   > right. The only descriptors are the lengths of character variables introduced   
   > in F77. -John]   
      
   Hmmm....for the current version of Fortran, that isn't true. Assumed shape   
   array - introduced some fifteen years ago in F90 - need to transport shape   
   information that is equivalent to a "descriptor". So do allocatable arrays and   
   array pointers.   
      
   	Jan   
   [Oh, right.  It's been a while. -John]   
      
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