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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: EQUIVALENCE, COMPUTED GO TO in FORTRAN 88?
Message-ID: <7255@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 11 Dec 89 02:18:38 GMT
References: <143@suntc.UUCP> <580@unmvax.unm.edu> <581@unmvax.unm.edu>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <581@unmvax.unm.edu> brainerd@unmvax.unm.edu (Walt Brainerd) writes:
> 4.  Who knows what PAUSE might do, but in most cases, it can be replaced
>     by a PRINT to the standard output and a READ to cause continuation.

Heaven forbid I should defend one of the weirder aspects of FORTRAN, but this
is now actually a useful feature. In a hosted implementation on a windowing
system, PAUSE could reasonably be expected to put up a requestor or dialog
box and wait for a mouse click... something that a simple PRINT+READ can't do.

Now for the $64000 question: do any Fortrans do this?
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