On 2016-04-27 18:03-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> [...] gained useful generalized capability for processing 2D arrays in any
> format that is accessible to C (regardless of whether that format is
> efficent or not).  Note that each of our supported languages typically
> has a preferred efficient native method of representing 2D arrays,
> e.g., row-major order in C and row-column order in Fortran (see
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row-major_order> for further details).
> So the above functions can be quite useful in _the implementation_ of
> each of our language bindings to help translate from one implementation
> to another.                                               ^^^^

Ugh. That last "implementation" obscures the whole meaning of the
paragraph.  What I meant to write instead of that particular word was
"2D array representation" which I hope clarifies my meaning.

The problem obviously is that Fortran is my first language instead of
English.  :-)

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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