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Thank you! I finally fully understand the difference between those two terms. Also, thanks for the guidelines for further study :)

DimitrijeCiric
– DimitrijeCiric

2023-06-27 17:26:14 +00:00
Commented Jun 27, 2023 at 17:26
Mutable numbers: In Fortran IV constants passed as parameters could be mutated. So I could change 2 to 4, and the result of adding 1+1 would be 4 :-( It was a horrible problem in the language definition, not a compiler bug.

gnasher729
– gnasher729

2023-06-28 15:54:50 +00:00
Commented Jun 28, 2023 at 15:54

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