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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Dimensioning arrays at run-time, best way?
Message-ID: <3799@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 21 Sep 90 08:28:56 GMT
References: <1990Sep18.115704.20642@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <191@matrix.mathworks.com>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <191@matrix.mathworks.com>, moler@matrix.mathworks.com (Cleve Moler) writes:
> The key to making this sort of thing work correctly is the
> VMS Fortran addressing extension %val().

The first time I saw passing-something-by-value-to-a-Fortran-subroutine
was in a program written for IBM/360 (Fortran H?).  The syntax was
	CALL SUBR(/ARG/)
Using the spelling %val(.) may be a VMS extension (it looks a lot like
Bliss) but which vendor implemented the _idea_ first?

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