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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Local vs global variables in ADA
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 18:19:04 -0800
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Larry Hazel fed this fish to the penguins on Tuesday 05 November 2002 
03:46 pm:

>> 
> If I remember correctly, the Fortran compiler for the SDS/Xerox Sigma
> computers used:
> 
> REPEAT
>     Statements
> WHILE Condition
> 
> or UNTIL Condition
>
        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.

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