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From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
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Subject: Re: Fortran 8x, recursive procedures
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Date: 24 Mar 88 20:51:15 GMT
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In article <1180@hubcap.UUCP> fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson) writes:

>We are extending Fortan for hypercubes and we have been rummaging around
>the standard some.  There seems to be no prohibition to recursion.  As
>you point out, there are several.

I'm not sure exactly what this means, but if it means that the Fortran
standard doesn't prohibit recursion, it's wrong.  See

	[ANSI X3.9-1978 15.6.2.2], third para.

Also, I'm a bit puzzled by the idea of "extending Fortran for hypercubes".
Extending Fortran for, say, business data processing sounds like a good
idea, since that's a genuine problem domain.