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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. -- Phillip Helbig Email .......... [log in to unmask] Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories Tel. ..... +44 1477 571 321 (ext. 297) Jodrell Bank Fax ................. +44 1477 571 618 Macclesfield Telex ................. 36149 JODREL G UK-Cheshire SK11 9DL Web .... http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pjh/ My opinions are not necessarily those of NRAL or the University of Manchester. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%