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From: dmurdoch@watstat.uwaterloo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: Function calls in the middle of subroutine CALLs? -- Is it standard fortran 77 ????
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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 90 01:48:56 GMT
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In article <BURLEY.90Jul14154236@world.std.com> burley@world.std.com (James C Burley) writes:
>In article <6381@helios.TAMU.EDU> forrest@eemips.tamu.edu (Bob Forrest) writes:
>
>   "Is it part of the FORTRAN 77 standard to be allowed to make function
>   calls in the middle of a subroutine CALL?  -- assuming only FORTRAN
>
>Yes (and no).
...
>But it seems clear you mean "in the middle" only
>in the sense of "as one of the arguments for a subroutine call".

Does the standard specify in what order the arguments will be evaluated?
If they have side effects, it makes a big difference sometimes. I've been
bitten by a bug caused by the lack of such specification in Pascal.

Duncan Murdoch