From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/3/2024 5:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 17:13:40 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/3/2024 5:08 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 14:32:28 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I have 197 common blocks included from dedicated files and a massive   
   >>>> number of equivalences all over the place.   
   >>>   
   >>> Try getting rid of at least some of them, by using “contains”.   
   >>   
   >> What does "contains" do ?  My knowledge of Fortran stopped at F77+.   
   >   
   > Pick up a Fortran-90-or-later spec. This is not your father’s Fortran any   
   > more. “contains” lets you put subroutines and functions directly in the   
   > main program, so they can refer directly to program globals instead of   
   > having to go through “common” blocks.   
   >   
   > I posted an example of modernized Fortran code right here a few months   
   > ago, and I see there’s a comment from you on it, so you must have seen it.   
      
   Ah yes, the Lunar Lander game.   
      
   I played that game back in 1971 on the operator console teletype for a   
   Univac 1108.  Was a blast.  Ran through an entire roll of paper that   
   night while my Dad was chasing a bug in the software that I have been   
   working on since 1975.   
      
   Here is something about the Fortran Contains:   
       https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35808053/contains-statement   
      
   Lynn   
      
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