Re: Local vs global variables in ADA

[Dan Nagle <dnagle@erols.com>]

Hello,

Which, technically, is the only correct way to go...

In Fortran, the common name is global, the variable
names in the common are local names.  Fortran has
no global variable names.

-- 
Cheers!

Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.

On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 18:19:04 -0800, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

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>>
>        Ooooh... My reference manuals are in storage so I can't check... Of 
>course, this was the same compiler that defined a "GLOBAL vars" 
>statement... Which effectively translated:
>
>        global x, y, m, n, a
>
>into
>
>        common /x/ x
>        common /y/ y
>        common /m/ m
>        common /n/ n
>        common /a/ a
>
>IE, /each/ variable named generated a named common block containing 
>only that variable, and the common block name matched the variable name.

<snip sig>