> I know about the array-of-arrays factor all too well. (I tend to use the > [x,x] notation when not paying attention). But as a declaration has to > specify how many levels of indirection > (pointer-to-pointer-to-pointer-to.....) we are dealing with, a limit seemed > possible nonetheless.
It's only a limit on the syntax. There may be a limit on size and dimensionality of single definitions (allocations) as well. Declarations? In C? C99 is getting way too pascalish for my taste ;-) Options ... * Just declare it a pointer-to-whatever and use [][][] and have as many as you want, unless you really require single hyper-rectangular storage allocations and locality of reference. (Implication -- you have to allocate and free each dimension of array the hard way) * Use C++ and do your own memory management, once, just like in Perl objects. If you have an 8-dimensional array, there is a very real possibility that you * have a memory management problem waiting to bite you * have a sparse array and can save storage with an alternative representation * have repeating values in one or more dimensions that could be compressed * you access it in ways that are inefficient with standard arrays, * Fortran would vectorize your acesses (Gnu G99 supports F?) Bill _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
