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Re: FORTRAN style, not OK?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg26876] Re: FORTRAN style, not OK?
• From: Albert Retey <albert.retey at visualanalysis.com>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:27:22 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Visual Analysis
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> In[20]:=
> v = 5
> c = 2
> v = v - c
> Out[20]= 5
> Out[21]= 2
> Out[22]= 3
> 
> Whatever the problem is, it is not Mathematica's own syntax. Why not look
> more closely at what your code does?
> 
> --
> Paul Lutus
> www.arachnoid.com

Very important point: _IF_ you set v to a specific value before calling
v=v-c there is no problem in Mathematica. If you don't, then you will
run into an infinit recursion. But in this case (without assigning a
value to v) the FORTRAN
statement would not make too much sense anyway?? I would even suspect
the compiler could complain...

Albert

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