Further reading

Best practices with arrays: http://mng.bz/pBp2

Summary

• An array is a sequence of values of the same type that is contiguous in memory.
• Arrays are Fortran’s only built-in data structure.
• Fortran arrays can be statically or dynamically allocated, and support up to 15 dimensions.
• You can index and slice arrays to reference specific elements or sections of them.
• Fortran’s allocate and deallocate statements come with built-in error handling.
• Take care to never index arrays out of bounds, or you’ll get undesired results and perhaps even crash the program.
• Arrays are the basis of their parallel analog, coarrays, which we’ll explore in chapter 7.