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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 23:16:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 14:15:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

>> There are other ways of doing that that do not involve passing 60
>> parameters into a single function call.
>> 
> Yes, but they are even clunkier

Typically you would find those values travel around in groups, which makes 
it natural to put them together in a struct.

Or alternatively, they could be 60 separate data channels collecting 
similar kinds of information, which points to the use of an array.

The idea of 60 independent values of 60 different types coming together 
from 60 separate random origins just strikes me as ... unlikely.