From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Fri Jun 16 18:57:42 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dmo5 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dmo5@open-std.org Received: by open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 5AA2A2387E; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:57:42 +0200 (CET DST) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from dkuug.dk (ptah.dkuug.dk [195.215.30.66]) by open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B223423779 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:57:40 +0200 (CET DST) Received: from mail1.cray.com (mail1.cray.com [136.162.0.111]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) with ESMTP id k5GGvHft086663 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:57:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from longb@cray.com) Received: from mh1750-1.us.cray.com (mh1750-1.us.cray.com [172.31.74.55]) by mail1.cray.com (8.13.6/8.13.3/gw-5323) with ESMTP id k5GGv9PX023043 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:57:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mh2650-1.us.cray.com (mh2650-1.us.cray.com [172.31.74.50]) by mh1750-1.us.cray.com (8.13.6/8.13.3/hub-5273) with ESMTP id k5GGv9HH000448; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:57:09 -0500 Received: from cray.com (mh-dhcp-172-31-20-97.us.cray.com [172.31.20.97]) by mh2650-1.us.cray.com (8.13.6/8.13.3/spool-5907) with ESMTP id k5GGv8en013002; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:57:08 -0500 Message-ID: <4492E546.4030809@cray.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:07:18 -0500 From: Bill Long Reply-To: longb@cray.com Organization: Cray Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk CC: WG5 Subject: Re: (j3.2005) (SC22WG5.3395) Draft convener's report to SC22 References: <20060616161642.DB2682382F@open-std.org> In-Reply-To: <20060616161642.DB2682382F@open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Cray-VirusStatus: clean X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk John Reid wrote: > please send any comments ASAP. > > > >22.02.01.02 Type 2 Technical Report on Exception Handling > >The features of the TR on Exception Handling have been incorporated >in the new Fortran Standard ISO/IEC 1539-1:2004(E), so no maintenance >of this TR is been undertaken. > > >22.02.01.04 Type 2 Technical Report on Enhanced Data Type Facilities > >The features of the TR on Enhanced Data Type Facilities have been >incorporated in the new Fortran Standard ISO/IEC 1539-1:2004(E), so no >maintenance of this TR is been undertaken. > In each of the two sections above, I would change "new Fortran standard" to "base Fortran standard" (this term is used later to refer to f03). There were earlier paragraphs regarding the Fortran 2008 work, which is what I would think of as "new". The use of "new" here seems confusing. The last phrase in each section "so no maintenance of this TR is been undertaken" should end with either 'has been undertaken' or 'is being undertaken'. > > >2 PERIOD REVIEW > >2.1 Market Requirements > >Fortran is the language of choice for much scientific, engineering, >and economic programming, particularly for very large programs that >have evolved over many years. The long delay between the release of >Fortran 77 and the availability of Fortran 90 compilers, at a time >when other languages, such as C and C++, were evolving rapidly, had a >significant impact on the use of Fortran, but there are now clear >signs that the facilities available in Fortran 95 are >causing a growing number of scientific and technological users to move >towards these latest versions of Fortran. Vendors have upgraded their >Fortran 90 compilers to Fortran 95, most of them have incorporated the >extensions of TR 15581 (allocatable array extensions) and some have >incorporated the extensions of TR 15580 (exception handling and >support of IEEE floating-point arithmetic). Some have begun implementing >the new features of Fortran 2003. > I think that now it would be appropriate to change the first word of the last sentence above to at least "Several", if not "Most". Cheers, Bill -- Bill Long longb@cray.com Fortran Technical Support & voice: 651-605-9024 Bioinformatics Software Development fax: 651-605-9142 Cray Inc., 1340 Mendota Heights Rd., Mendota Heights, MN, 55120