ambiguous ?

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Sat Oct 21 03:37:38 AEST 1989


[ in Fortran,

	CALL SUBR(FUNC, FUNC)

May be called as

	TEMP=FUNC
	CALL SUBR(TEMP, TEMP)

Which is an even greater liberty with the calling sequence than C is
permitted ]

Thank you.

So, FORTRAN does have ambiguous and unspecified behaviour. It just
describes it in different terms. If Jim Giles has a problem with C,
then he must have an even bigger problem with FORTRAN. If not, then
his opposition to C must be based on religious beliefs rather than
logical reasoning.
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