smart compilers

[Dick Dunn]

> > I thought Fortran-77 required constant actual parameters to be
> > "copied in" rather than passed by reference?
> 
> FORTRAN parameters are always pass-by-reference.

Please verify before you post absolutes like this.  FORTRAN parameters are
required to obey a certain semantics.  Call-by-reference is one mechanism
which satisfies the constraints.  Copy/restore is another.
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