From: SMTP%"[log in to unmask]" 19-MAR-1998 10:18:45.90
> This is intended as a survey.
>
> Fortran 90 allows us to initialize variables, a nice and useful feature but
> initialized variables are automatically SAVEd.
> I find this rule somewhat annoying and even potentially dangerous in
> parallel and object-oriented programming.
> In my view the default SAVE rule should be scrapped. If the variable must be
> saved, an explicit SAVE can be added as an attribute. This seems to be a much
> cleaner and safer solution.
It seems to me that you have a valid objection here.
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