A few thought regarding Cray's "Variable Length Array Proposal"

[Michael Meissner]

| I don't see any problem with requiring the dimension argument to come before
| the array argument.  As it now stands, C programmers aren't writing these
| functions, because they are not supported.  If in order to write them they
| would have to follow a few simple rules, such as having the dimensions come
| first, that would be easy to live with.  In fact it's an easy rule for users
| to remember.  If it would help gain implementor acceptance then I'm all for
| it.

However, the problem is that the intended consumers of the VLA's and
X3J11.1 in general, have existing practice in Fortran where the bound
comes after the array.