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- From: miller@icf.llnl.gov (Pat Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Why CALL EXIT? (was Re: Question for C ==> Fortran)
- Keywords: why ask why
- Message-ID: <131935@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 15:57:32 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.075514.28683@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> <1992Jul29.134901.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu> <1992Jul29.204115.3917@walter.cray.com>
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- In article <1992Jul29.204115.3917@walter.cray.com>, wws@craywr.cray.com
- (Walter Spector) writes:
- |> This is something I have never understood in almost 20 years of Fortran
- |> programming. Why do so many people use the non-standard CALL EXIT
- |> instead of the standardized-for-over-25-years STOP statement?
- |> Is/was there magic associated with it on some arcane systems?
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- On some older systems, exiting with a STOP printed some silly information
- that was useful in a BATCH (eek) context, but was annoying in an
- interactive mode. Using the non-standard exit made for a visually
- clean exit.
-
- Just a thought...
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