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From: templon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.os.vms
Subject: Question about variables local to subroutine
Keywords: Local variables, subroutines
Message-ID: <24891@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 89 04:03:33 GMT
Reply-To: templon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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I would like to know one simple (I hope) thing: what happens if you set
the value of a variable (local) in a subroutine, exit the subroutine, and
come back later?  Is it the same value, zero, or worse?  I read all TFMs
I could find and saw no answer to this one.  I am using VAX Fortran,
whatever version runs on VMS V4.6.  Thanks for any help you can send.

					Jeff Templon