[Info-vax] Fortran

[Scott Dorsey]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>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.

VMS Fortran has had INCLUDE for a long long time.  It was so great and 
people liked it so much that it later wound up in the f90 standard.
--scott
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