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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: FORTRAN value parameters (do compilers check for violation?)
Message-ID: <364@zuring.cwi.nl>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 17:36:25 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 17:36:25 1987
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In article <5401@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> lagache@violet.berkeley.edu (Edouard Lagache) writes:
 > 
 > 	The FORTRAN standard on passing expressions has been quoted
 > 	a number of times on the net.  To paraphrase, expressions
 > 	can be passed only if they are not changed in the subprogram.
 > 	However, all the compiler examples I have seen haven't checked if the
 > 	program in fact satisfied the standard.
 > 
 > 	Do such compilers exist, and if not is the standard practically
 > 	enforceable?
 > 
I do not know whether such compilers exist, but of course the standard is not
practically enforceable.
However, such situations exist in every language I know, but other
languages call it undefined.
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