• All details of the data structure & order is isolated to a single source file. No need to replicate COMMON BLOCKs throughout each subroutine or use the non-Fortran 77 INCLUDE as a work-around.
• Avoid problems with unequal COMMON BLOCK definitions.
• Can use all data variables by default, or select and rename a subset.

Code examples

• ---

  example of typical Fortran 77 code

  ---

• ---

  Fortran 90 replacement example

  ---

• ---

  Output results

  ---