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From: Rune Allnor <allnor@tele.ntnu.no>
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Subject: Re: goto, again
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On 30 Jun, 18:20, "Andy Robb" <ajr...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> badly written
> Fortran (that ignores the 'no aliasing' rule) can break when
> optimised.

I am, as you understand, no particular fan of fortran.
While I had developed that view from various bad experiences
over several years, the real clincher was an anecdote a
colleague of mine once told: He had been able to make
a variable named 1 (digit one) which contained the
numerical value 2.

As he said, 'I only tried it to test if it worked, but
it was an interesting experience to try and make sense of
the code.'

I have no idea how he did it or if he used some
particularly arcane variant of fortran, though.

Rune