On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 16:00 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > Starting in 1986, I advocated for uniform syntax and updaters in > Fortran. Updaters can be thought of as the reverse of functions. > They "absorb" a value instead of producing one. Also starting on page > 38 of 97-114r2. Also in 04-141r1.