Re: Automatic allocation of an available file unit

Paul Van Delst wrote:

<snip>

But, if you do the above doesn't it mean that you don't really care what the actual unit
value is? All you care is that it's valid to use for file I/O, right? So what does it
matter if it's negative?

The NUMBER specifier for the INQUIRE statement returns the unit number
connected to the file, or -1 if there is no unit connected to the file.
Therefore I would never want -1 to be a valid unit number.

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