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Module- / Routine-Names: Conventions

 
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viroxa



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 10:43 am    Post subject: Module- / Routine-Names: Conventions Reply with quote

Hello, everyone,

I was wondering, whether any conventions or recommended practices for naming modules, subroutines, functions, etc. in fortran exist. In some books I have I found conventions for variables, but modules and routines seem to be named arbitrarily.

Currently I name them as follows:
Modules - mod_module_name (i.e. mod_parameters)
Subroutines / Functions - action_routine_name (i.e. calc_area_triangle)
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LitusSaxonicum



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 11:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Subroutine names don't need anything special, do they, as they are always associated with 'CALL'.

I don't know if you have got round to Clearwin+ yet, but it requires lots of call-back functions, and 'action_routine_name' on its own isn't enough to remind you that you are dealing with a function, especially as the call-back routines are usually EXTERNAL within a WINIO@ function list of parameters, so they don't have any parameters of their own, and not even (). My trick is to add something to the name: e.g. _FN or _CBF on the end.

I also have very long source codes divided over many files, and I maintain another couple of files called WHEREIS.FOR and WHATIS.FOR that tell me (respectively)where every subroutine and function can be found, and what every variable does. WHATIS.FOR is a hangover from days when variable names had to be short. Then, when I have got things working to my satisfaction, I add comments adjacent to subroutine and function calls duplicating the information from WHEREIS.FOR so when I am reading my long-ago-written code I know where to look for that link. In any case, I put a list of subroutines and functions at the start of every source code file with line numbers so I know where to look, and also try to keep source code files down to 2000 lines or so.

Eddie
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