From bill@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com Wed Feb 2 04:11:08 1994 Received: from travis.csd.harris.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA04508 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 2 Feb 1994 15:11:31 +0100 Received: from amber.ssd.csd.harris.com by travis.csd.harris.com (5.61/harris-5.1) id AA10936; Wed, 2 Feb 94 09:11:10 -0500 Received: by amber (5.61/CX/UX-5.0) id AA17740; Wed, 2 Feb 94 09:11:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 94 09:11:08 -0500 From: bill@amber.ssd.csd.harris.com (Bill Leonard) Message-Id: <9402021411.AA17740@amber> To: schmitt@edvz.tuwien.ac.at Cc: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk In-Reply-To: <9402021015.AA08377@travis.csd.harris.com> (SUPERVISOR@edvzbb2.ben-fh.tuwien.ac.at) Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.488) Re: Comp.lang.fortran comments on evolution X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 > From: "Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Schmitt" > Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 10:42:37 CET+60 > > The fact is, there is no technical reason for this restriction to > > remain. It is a holdover from ancient architectures. Furthermore, > > F90 now allows structures containing both CHARACTER and > > non-CHARACTER data, and COMMON is > > nothing more than a big structure. So what's the problem? > The difference is storrage association. No, it's not. We still have SEQUENCE structures that can be storage associated as long as the declarations are identical. No reason why COMMON blocks can't do the same. Bill Leonard Harris Computer Systems Division 2101 W. Cypress Creek Road Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 bill@ssd.csd.harris.com These opinions and statements are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or positions of Harris Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Governments, like individuals, spend money for any or all of three reasons: because they want to, because they have to, or because they have it to spend." Rex Stout ------------------------------------------------------------------------------