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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Lynn McGuire    |
|    Re: Is there a way in Fortran to designa    |
|    20 Oct 24 05:38:15    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Sat, 5 Oct 2024 15:04:38 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:              > On 10/5/2024 1:39 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       >>       >> If I were you, I would look for opportunities to simplify things in       >> that Fortran code by using new features, where I have to make major       >> modifications to those parts anyway.       >       > All of the modifications that I am making are minor. Mostly changing my       > old 8 byte data structure/union to I*8 and L*8.              Here’s another useful thing to do: get rid of COMMON blocks and replace       them with MODULE «name» ... USE «name».              As the compiler does its checking, you may pick up a few long-unnoticed       typos along the way ...              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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