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Procedure Independence

Each program unit has its own independent set of symbolic names and labels. Type statements and IMPLICIT statements may be used to specify their data types.

External procedures can themselves call any other procedures and these may call others in turn, but procedure are not allowed to call themselves either directly or indirectly; that is recursive calling is not permitted in Fortran.



Helen Rowlands
8/27/1998