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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Answers, Chapter 1: TeX
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Date: 3 Nov 90 16:51:09 GMT
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> > (2) Aliasing of data structures should not be allowed unless made
> > explicit by declarations.

> Nevertheless, this has _always_ been true of arrays in most
> programming languages (other than C and its relatives).

And in practice this has pretty much never been enforced. In practice all
function and subroutine parameters in Fortran have all the characteristics
of pointers.
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