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From: Dan Nagle <dnagle@erols.com>
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Subject: Re: Local vs global variables in ADA
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 08:45:25 -0500
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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.

--=20
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:

<snip requoted>
>>
>        Ooooh... My reference manuals are in storage so I can't check...=
 Of=20
>course, this was the same compiler that defined a "GLOBAL vars"=20
>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=20
>only that variable, and the common block name matched the variable name.

<snip sig>