Newbie : checking semantics

[Mike Meyer]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:

> 	Or the infamous, and maybe urban legend, of the early FORTRAN
> compiler in which literal constants weren't...
>
> 	call inc(1)
> 	write(6, 100) 1
>  100	format("I5")
> ....
>
> 	subroutine inc(i)
> 	i = i + 1
> 	return
>
> ... would print "    2"

It's not an urban legend. I used to sit in a booth and answer student
programmers questions at a university, and saw this bug more than once
from people learning FORTRAN on an IBM 370.

     <mike
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