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Foil 28 Arguments for Procedures

From New CPS615 Foils-- 28 August 95 CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 95. by Nancy McCracken and Geoffrey C. Fox


1 In Fortran90, each subroutine, function and (main) program are compiled independently
  • Default implies that cannot refer to variables from one procedure in another
2 One can pass arguments and these are passed by reference(address) not value as in Fortran77
3 Common blocks or modules can be used for global declaration of variables that can be referenced in all subroutines

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