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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Proposed change to BC iterator parameters
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

>         FORTRAN is a bit worse than that -- since a COMMON block only defines 
> a (named) block of memory containing variables, and other files naming 
> the same COMMON don't even have to use the same type of variables in 
> the same order... Think Unchecked_Conversion between n-Record types <G>

When I wrote (VAX/VMS) Fortran 77 I used to put common blocks in
include files -- is there any other way to do it?!

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.