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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Is this a "feature"?
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Date: 25 May 91 18:52:10 GMT
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In article <24424@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
 >                                                               In fact, 
 > I seem to remember that in the 66 standard the definition status of a 
 > local variable across calls was not even mentioned.
But it is.  In the section about variables that become *undefined* when
executing a return statement.  (From memory: if a variable is assigned to
within a routine its value becomes undefined when executing a return
statement.)
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl