# 164. Changing a loop index within a loop is invalid.
topic: {ref}`loops`
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Changing the loop index within a loop is not allowed, but a compiler may not catch it if it happens in another procedure. It is safer to pass a loop index only to procedures where it is an INTENT(IN) argument.
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