Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: multidimensional arrays in C Message-ID: <7109@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 14:11:24 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7109 Posted: Tue Jan 8 14:11:24 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jan-85 07:02:46 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 8 No, parametric formal array parameter dimensions would not break any existing code, since the only dimensions now permitted are integer constants which have the same meaning as they would under my proposal. There would also be no ambiguity in the meaning of such type declarations. It is true that a section of the compiler would have to be done somewhat differently to support this feature.