What's the purpose of array size inside subroutine arguments?

[Beliavsky]

@certik

In my opinion, Fortran has many such deficiencies, that should be fixed with better compilers and tooling. Avoiding it does not fix the problem for me, since the “(:)” arrays do not couple the “model parameters” with dimensions, so while they are checked today, the checks are too late (such as when you actually index the array in some deeply nested matmul like subroutine and it happens to be out of bounds), which makes the development and debugging of codes harder.

You can check the dimensions of assumed-shape arrays concisely with FINDLOC, as I showed.