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From: sccowan@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Crispin Cowan)
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Subject: Re: Recursion Summary
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Date: 29 Oct 90 15:24:54 GMT
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In article <10143@milton.u.washington.edu> mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
>In article <1990Oct25.160014.17216@watdragon.waterloo.edu> bpdickson@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Brian Dickson) writes:
>>>Recursion is nothing more a reentrant subroutine call.
>>Error #1: reentrant subroutine call == recursion
>>Example: inexperienced FORTRAN programmer writes recursive program,
>>	wonders why weird things happen. (I observed this one.) :-(
>
>Fortran subroutines are non-reentrant, although there is no error
>check for subroutine call reentrancy.
We know, that was the point.  FORTRASH is broken in this way.

Crispin
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