How to avoid declaring and setting the value of a

Question

How to avoid repeated declaration of a variable that has a constant value in subroutines?

For example:

program test

implicit none

integer :: n

integer :: time

print*, "enter n" ! this will be a constant value for the whole program

call Calcul(time)

print*, time

end program

subroutine Calcul(Time)

implicit none

integer :: time 

! i don't want to declare the constant n again and again because some times the subroutines have a lot of variables.

time = n*2

end subroutine

Sometimes there are a lot of constants that are defined by the user and I will make a lot of subroutines that use those constants, so I want to stock them and and use them without redefining them again and again.

Answer 1

For global variables use modules (old FORTRAN used common blocks, but they are obsolete):

module globals
  implicit none

  integer :: n

contains

  subroutine read_globals()    !you must call this subroutine at program start

    print*, "enter n" ! this will be a constant value for the whole program
    read *, n
  end subroutine
end module

!this subroutine should be better in a module too !!!
subroutine Calcul(Time)
  use globals !n comes from here
  implicit none

  integer :: time 
  time = n*2
end subroutine

program test
  use globals ! n comes from here if needed
  implicit none

  integer :: time

  call read_globals()

  call Calcul(time)

  print*, time
end program

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