Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
As far as I know, the last programming language that included arrays' sizes in their types was Standard Pascal,
There have been many such languages since Standard Pascal. For example C, C++, C#, Java, Ada, VHDL, and NU-Prolog.
C, C++ and Java do not belong to that list. I can't speak about the others, not being very familiar with them.
Java and C# don't belong to that list, but C and C++ do. I don't know about others.
In C and C++, the declaration int n[50]; introduces an array variable with size 50 having the type "array of int". The size is *not* part of the type.
No, it introduces a variable of type "array of 50 ints", which can be converted to "pointer to int". It matters when you make a pointer of such arrays, an array of such arrays, or sizeof such array. In C++ the size can be matched by template parameter, and you can have separate overloadings for separate array sizes. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/