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Date:	Fri, 13 Feb 2004 22:48:09 PST8
From:	"Lynn H. Maxson" <lmaxson@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-programming@scoug.com" > scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: PL/I most important statement (was: call(TZ) ? - PL/I)

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Peter,

We can cut this one short. When PL/I exits a procedure it
automatically deallocates all variables with automatic,
controlled, or based storage attribute. The housekeeping
ceases to be an issue. The issue is to dynamically allocate
storage at runtime. If you had rather write a begin-block to
do with automatic storage what an allocate statement can
achieve with controlled or based storage, that's your choice.
In either instance exiting the begin- or the procedure-block
has the same result in terms of deallocation.

I won't take up the gauntlet with respect to C and its memory
management problems which linger on in C++ and JAVA.
That's why I use PL/I instead.

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