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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 09:21:09 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] C declarations.
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On Sat, 13 May 2017, Random832 wrote:

> Fortran, for the record, passes nearly everything by reference [...]

And if you passed a constant and the local argument was modified, so was 
the (single instance of) constant...

Actually, wasn't FORTRAN value-result i.e. all args were copied straight 
back again, or am I confusing that with ALGOL?  Blimey, it's been over 40 
years since I last submitted a card deck.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."