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		Etheryte 16 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aliasing It's literally in the description? Because of aliasing, a variable that should've been zero became four.

pklausler 16 days ago [–]

It wasn't a variable.

Etheryte 16 days ago | [–]

It wasn't intended to be a variable, but it did become one. Its value varied, it's in the name.

pklausler 16 days ago | | [–]

But this is just Fortran's call-by-reference in action. It's not aliasing.

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