Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ece-csc!mcnc!xanth!nic.MR.NET!tank!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxg.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: INCLUDE .vs. MODULE Message-ID: <50500086@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 26 Oct 88 15:10:00 GMT References: <917@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Lines: 7 Nf-ID: #R:mace.cc.purdue.edu:917:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:50500086:000:362 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald Oct 26 10:10:00 1988 I believe that the MAJOR problem with module as opposed to include is that what can be placed in a module is limited. ANYTHING and be placed in an include. In any case, since include is present standard practice, it must be included (sorry for the pun) in any useful compiler anyway - so if it is not in the standard, people are going to laugh at the standard.