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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Re:  smart compilers
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 02:09:18 EST
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> > 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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