From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 18:38:48 -0000 (UTC)   
   Thomas Koenig  wrote:   
      
   > ["Followup-To:" nach comp.lang.fortran gesetzt.]   
   > Michael S  schrieb:   
   > > On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 07:23:41 -0000 (UTC)   
   > > Thomas Koenig  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >>   
   > >> Parsers are a field where Fortran does not shine, although   
   > >> allocatable characters have made this much easier.   
   > >   
   > > Another field where Fortran "does not shine" is handling of huge   
   > > uni-dimensional arrays.   
   >   
   > Why?   
   >   
   > If you are referring to pre-Fortran-90 days, you are also 35   
   > years in the past :-)   
   >   
   > A bit more verbiage than required (usually, I would expect people   
   > to put their kind numbers into modules):   
   >   
   > module my_kinds   
   >   use iso_fortran_env, only: real64, int64   
   >   implicit none   
   >   private   
   >   public :: ik, rk   
   >   integer, parameter :: ik = int64, rk = real64   
   > end module my_kinds   
   >   
   > program main   
   >   use my_kinds   
   >   implicit none   
   >   integer(ik) :: sz   
   >   real(rk), allocatable, dimension(:) :: array   
   >   read (*,*) sz   
   >   allocate(array(sz))   
   > end program main   
   >   
   > works just fine.   
   >   
      
   Not that I understood all incantations, but I guess that above code   
   demonstrates that in New Fortran array indices are no longer limited to   
   2**31.   
   Good to know.   
      
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