[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <G6Kdnba3_tulc1DXnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> Us old folks who never had them never missed them! Of course Fortran 
> USED pointers but you couldn't access them.  There were exceptions; e.g. 
> users who managed to compute negative subscripts without corresponding 
> array declarations. . . .

   With %loc and %val, we had them, and occasionally used them, on
   our VAXen.  But we knew that was no where near standard.