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From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C common practice. (was: low level optimization)
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Date: 28 Apr 91 01:10:01 GMT
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In article <1991Apr27.014136.25697@rock.concert.net> boyd@cs.unca.edu (Mark Boyd) writes:
>FORTRAN scoping rules are different from C. It doesn't matter whether
>you put all the suprograms in one file or put them all in separate
>files, except that it will compile faster if you put them all together!

Tetural issue:  C can operate in the same way, by use of
the `extern' keyword.

				--Blair
				  "Up scope!"