Re: Declaration to get 8-bit (or 16-bit) integer?

Hello,

glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

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(snip regarding the original intent of Fortran)

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A maximum of three subscripts on arrays, with restrictions on the allowed expressions for subscripts.

Backus has specifically denied this was due to the number
of index registers. See HOPL, Mike Shapiro's question
after Backus' talk, and Backus' answer.

The original Fortran team was concerned by the overhead
of index calculations.

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Cheers!

Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.
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