equivalent. The expression
given above for <code class="literal">a(i,j)</code> will yield the same value
regardless of the memory layout.

Boost.MultiArray arrays can be created with customized storage
parameters as described above. Thus, existing data can be adapted
(with <code class="literal">multi_array_ref</code> or
<code class="literal">const_multi_array_ref</code>) as suited to the array
abstraction.  A common usage of this feature would be to wrap arrays
that must interoperate with Fortran routines s