In article <4dg101F17acafU1@individual.net>,
Jan Vorbr�ggen  <jvorbrueggen@not-mediasec.de> wrote:

>If I have a native complex type, the language implementor is free to arrange
>the real and imaginary part in memory as he sees fit,

Although Fortran does restrict the implementation, so the langauge
implementer is not fully free.

-- greg