Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 07:12 PM 2/1/01 -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:
>>I recalled hearing about a language (was it java?) where
>>you set the return value of a function (was it VB?) by
>>assigning to the name of the function within the function body,
>>so the last line would be
>>
>> fname=rval;
>>
>>or fname could be used instead of rval all through it.
>
>Ah, an homage to Pascal :-)
More like Fortran:
REAL FUNCTION FOO(A)
REAL A
C
FOO = 2*A+3
RETURN
END
^^^^^^^
note exactly 7 spaces...
And I think Fortran has a better claim to priority ;)
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