227. Sequence association effectively lets you pass a pointer to an array element.

topic: Array arguments

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With sequence association for explicit-shape and assumed-size arrays, you can pass a single array element to an array dummy argument to pass a pointer to a location in the array, as shown in the previous code. Restrictions are discussed at

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With sequence association for explicit-shape and assumed-size arrays, you can pass a single array element to an array dummy argument to pass a pointer to a location in the array, as shown in the previous code. Restrictions are discussed at https://t.co/2EMAeNtUJB

— FortranTip (@fortrantip) May 31, 2022

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