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- From: walt@netcom.com (Walt Brainerd)
- Subject: Re: Understanding ENTRY and Recursion (was Re: ENTRY in main)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.221237.7814@netcom.com>
- Summary: Recursion is standard Fortran 90
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:12:37 GMT
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- > No, recursion is not legal in standard FORTRAN. You can't make it so by
- > duplicating subroutines and renaming one of them.
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- Recursion is legal in the current standard Fortran,
- which is Fortran 90, adopted as the ISO standard in 1991,
- adopted as an ANSI standard in 1992.
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