# Questions about statement functions

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**Created:** [April 28, 2022, 1:20pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/questions-about-statement-functions/3341 "2022-04-28T13:20:59Z")\
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In the F77 era, when there were no smartphones and, incidentally, no internal or module functions, the _statement functions_ were quite useful. Containing just a single expression as their definition, could be treated as an obvious hint to the compiler to inline them in the code. Probably could have been still such a hint, if not made obsolescent.

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