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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!ulowell!m2c!nic.umass.edu!dime!roo.cs.umass.edu!pop
  2. From: pop@cs.umass.edu ( Robin Popplestone )
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
  4. Subject: Mutability
  5. Message-ID: <59208@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  6. Date: 27 Jan 93 14:46:06 GMT
  7. Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
  8. Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  9. Lines: 7
  10. Originator: pop@roo.cs.umass.edu
  11.  
  12. I seem to recall hearing that early versions of Fortran would accept
  13. statements like
  14.  
  15.    3 = 4
  16.  
  17. and interpret them as specifying that the constant "3" should have the
  18. value "4" from now on.
  19.