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From: richardh@killer.UUCP (Richard Hargrove)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Semantics of local variables
Message-ID: <2617@killer.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 87 23:04:32 GMT
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Keywords: semantics local variables DATA

A quick question for serious FORTRAN user's: do the semantics of initializing
a local variable in a DATA statement force the variable to have static 
scope? That is, can you generally count on the variable retaining its value
across calls to the subroutine in which it's defined? I know this is the case
for some compilers, but can you count on it generally? F77 and no, I don't 
have a copy of the standard.

thanks,
richard hargrove
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