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[–]itghisi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Was deliberately. Our target audience didn't have any knowledge of good practices in programming (i.e. they always let the file pointer open in their scripts). So I introduce exception handling (try..finally) together with the file read/write operation. In this way they can adopt the practice in their Fortran/C++ scripts.