FortC++ is a templated header library designed to add Fortran-style arrays into C++. This is not the first or the best such offering. Here is a list of others:
This library is not intended to be a linear algebra package. It is intended to create user-friendly arrays which provide whole-array operations, slicing, views, multi-d indexing, and bounds checking. Whole-array operations do not generate temporaries (with appropriate inlining), keeping the overhead of using the arrays down.
FortC++ supports any rank of array using variadic templates. Column-Major ordering of the data is the default, but Row-Major ordering is fully supported. There are two main components to FortCpp:
FortCpp::Alloc< Type, Rank, Options >
FortCpp::Fixed< Type, Dims... >The Alloc class specifies an allocatable array, whose dimensions are only known at runtime.
This is the main workhorse of FortC++. The Fixed class specifies a static array whose size
must be determined at compile time. These two classes are fully compatible with each other.
Because FortC++ is a header-file only library, using the library is as straightforward as
placing the library in your project's directory and including FortCpp.h.
For a more detailed introduction to FortC++, see the tutorial.