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From: fpst@hubcap.UUCP (Steve Stevenson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Recursion
Message-ID: <1225@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 13:27:36 GMT
References: <2787@emory.uucp>
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Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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in article <2787@emory.uucp>, platt@emory.uucp (Dan Platt) says:
> 
> Recursion requires variables to be passed by value (in general) rather than
> by address.  

Not true.  The real problem is what is the semantics of the assignment
to an input variable.  Don't confuse implmentations with semantics of
the language.

-- 
Steve Stevenson                            fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
(aka D. E. Stevenson),                     fpst@clemson.csnet
Department of Computer Science,            comp.parallel
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1906 (803)656-5880.mabell