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Hello, To learn more about the firstloc() and lastloc() proposals, and to learn something of how ideas change during the process, look for findloc(), J3 paper 05-124r3. It's on J3's web site www.j3-fortran.org It's available under the meeting 171 documents. HTH -- Cheers! Dan Nagle Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc. On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:57:23 -0500, Aleksandar Donev <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Harvey Richardson - Consultant Benchmark Engineer wrote: > >>Connection Machine Fortran had FIRSTLOC and LASTLOC intrinsics. >>I once tried to convert these to standard array syntax but it is >>not worth it. >> >> >There is a proposal by J3 to add these to the next revision of the >standard. I myself have never used such beasts, but apparently they >appear frequently enough. The best of course would be to give >programmers the tools to write such TKR-generic functions >themselves...this of course being not so trivial. >Best, >Aleksandar