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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: Re: does Fortran 77 allow recursion?
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 01:51:35 EDT
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>From: johnl@ima.UUCP
>
>You might hope that some Fortran systems that disallow recursion would at
>least detect it and barf, by having an "active" flag for each routine.
>But no, not in any compiler I've ever seen.
>
>John Levine, ima!johnl

The F77 compiler I just tried my recursion example on (it's an
"almost 4.3" F77) said "Warning on line  of : recursive
call".
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