From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Thu Jan 31 14:45:28 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom6 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom6@open-std.org Received: by open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id C9A9DD9ED2; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:45:28 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from oin.rl.ac.uk (oin.rl.ac.uk [130.246.135.200]) by open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1798151AF7 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:45:12 +0100 (CET) X-RAL-MFrom: X-RAL-Connect: Received: from jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk (jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk [130.246.9.202]) by oin.rl.ac.uk (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m0VDj2xw017965 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:45:02 GMT Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by jkr.cse.rl.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id m0VDj1Il014801; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:45:01 GMT Message-ID: <47A1D0DD.7030703@rl.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:45:01 +0000 From: John Reid Reply-To: j.k.reid@rl.ac.uk Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060209 Fedora/1.7.12-1.1.2.legacy X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WG5 Subject: February meeting of WG5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CCLRC-SPAM-report: 0 : X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk WG5, Please may I remind Heads of Delegations (HoDs) to prepare country reports? Please ask me for an N number when you are ready. In view of the 2-0-3 country vote in London on the resolution L5. Content of the revised Fortran standard That WG5 makes the following changes to the content of the revision: - type BITS is removed and ancillary bit manipulation facilities are revised as shown in WG5-N1695 - co-arrays are simplified by removal of CO_FINDLOC - intelligent macros are removed. I have been corresponding by email with the delegations of Canada, Japan, and UK without waiting for HoD reports. Canada (HoD Jim Xia) would like the extent of co-arrays to be further reduced and has some new suggestions. I have helped him to write up these suggestions, and the result is N1712, which is attached. Japan is preparing a proposal paper for separation of the co-arrays feature as a new part of the standard. I have offered to help write this. UK opinion is divided. Since there is a significant number of people who think that co-arrays should be moved to a TR, David Muxworthy and I have written a paper on this, which is attached (N1710). It explores the option in far more detail that was done during the London discussion. Were this to be adopted, we would need a version of the draft without co-arrays. Since the Editor has a "no-co-arrays" switch in his Latex source, I asked him to throw it and the result is visible on the WG5 site as N1709. He took the opportunity try a different page format, so not all the length reduction is due to removing co-arrays (some 25 pages are due to compression). He also tells me that the syntax rule annex in this version is broken - the tool that constructs it needs attention. We need to discuss these papers on the first day of the meeting (Sunday). I hope we manage to decide on these issues before the end of the day. With best wishes, John.