"bearophile" <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote in message news:guscb3$2iqj$1 at digitalmars.com... > > I have even troubles to remember if in the following syntax n is the > number of rows or the number of columns: > auto mat = new[][](n, m); > That's just a matter of convention. Neither is inherently a row or a column.