In
<CAPD5F5piy2kkwtwSCr0B5Gpd9ZzK81oRJ=mtf_etnux7-qo...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 12/12/2011
at 03:26 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>Automatic, LIFO dynamic storage IS readily available in PL/I in the
>form of local storage. In my experience it is not much used because
>misunderstood: people who attempted, uninstructed, to use it early on
>were dismayed when they discovered that successive subroutine calls
>did not leave it in its last-used state.
Most of the PL/I code that I've seen uses AUTOMATIC. Most of the PL/I
programmers that I've met know about STATIC.
BTW, if you need a LIFO stack that's not coupled to the control stack,
there's CONTROLLED.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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