nonzero lower bounds in arryas

[Frank Adams]

>>>By the way, this does raise a question in my mind about how the convention
>>>of 1, not 0, being the lower bound subscript for an array is gotten around
>>>efficiently in implementations of Fortran. [levy]
>
>>In the case of one-dimensional arrays, of course, it can be handled at
>>compile time. [barmar]
>
>Actually, in all cases it can be handled at compile time, [Chis Torek]

Not in the multidimensional case when one of the dimensions (other than the
last) is a variable.  However, every FORTRAN compiler I have worked with
does do this simplification when possible.

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