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From: jlg@a.UUCP (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Recursion
Message-ID: <533@a.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 01:31:13 GMT
References: <7975@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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Summary: Missed my point..

In article <7975@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, jerry@violet.berkeley.edu ( Jerry Berkman ) writes:
> 
> The 1977 FORTRAN standard, ANSI x3.9-1978 says (page 15-1, lines 55-56):
>     "A subprogram must not reference itself, either directly or indirectly."
> 
> Recursion is explicitly allowed in Fortran 8x.
>

I know all this.  My point was that Fortran 8x only needed to include
the sentence: "A procedure may reference itself, either directly or
indirectly."  This would be the only change required in order to 
allow recursion.  The question I asked was: "Why is the keyword RECURSIVE
necessary?"

J. Giles
Los Alamos