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Author Re: Function PRESENT and logical combinations
Jan Vorbrüggen

2004-06-25, 7:44 pm

>> IF (WHATIF()) THEN
>
>
> You just illuminated the law of unintended consequences, that is,
> compiler too smart for its own breeches.

Why is that too clever? It is one way of doing conditional code in Fortran,
and I'd rather prefer to have the compiler eliminate such dead code than
carrying it around unnecessarily.

Jan
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