[Info-vax] Fortran

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pu9e97$dbh$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> Same problem.  These days it's normal practice to put the common block
> in a file and then INCLUDE it as needed.  This means every routine always
> has the same common block definitions.  This dramatically reduces the number
> of things that can go wrong, but unfortunately the case above is one of the
> big ones still left.

Modules and INCLUDE were both introduced in Fortran90.  So, while the 
above is perhaps a slight improvement, better would be a rewrite using 
modules.