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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Why CALL EXIT? (was Re: Question for C ==> Fortran)
- Keywords: why ask why
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- Date: 31 Jul 92 00:07:51 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.134901.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu> <131935@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <30JUL199215540929@ltp2.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <30JUL199215540929@ltp2.gsfc.nasa.gov> gumley@ltp2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Liam E. Gumley) writes:
- > So I left it out completely. At the end of a main
- > program, I typically just close any files, then put an END statement.
- > It works. Seems to me the only place you should have a STOP statement is
- > at the end of a main program anyway. So why not do away with it?
- >
- Well, I know of systems were you get a non-zero exit status if your program
- does not terminate with a STOP statement.
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