From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Fri Nov 14 10:47:56 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom7 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom7@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id DF71BCA5FF4; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:47:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from sca-es-mail-2.sun.com (sca-es-mail-2.Sun.COM [192.18.43.133]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7322BCA343B for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:47:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from fe-sfbay-09.sun.com ([192.18.43.129]) by sca-es-mail-2.sun.com (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mAE9lihp019675 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from conversion-daemon.fe-sfbay-09.sun.com by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) id <0KAB00I01HSLGX00@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com> (original mail from Robert.Corbett@Sun.COM) for sc22wg5@open-std.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.146.84.104] by fe-sfbay-09.sun.com (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTPSA id <0KAB00EAPHVJC9B0@fe-sfbay-09.sun.com>; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:47:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:47:43 -0800 From: Robert Corbett Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.3683) [ukfortran] N1755: Request for new features from MPI Forum In-reply-to: <20081114030610.02C55CA343B@www2.open-std.org> To: fortran standards email list for J3 Cc: WG5 Reply-To: Robert.Corbett@Sun.COM Message-id: <491D493F.8000406@sun.com> Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <49137AD3.1070402@lrz.de> <20081111224927.8201CC178D9@www2.open-std.org> <20081111234923.517C5C178D6@www2.open-std.org> <20081112001017.26EB3C178D6@www2.open-std.org> <20081112091351.6581CC178D9@www2.open-std.org> <491BCB6F.8040406@sun.com> <20081113072205.9063AC178D9@www2.open-std.org> <491BDF12.8050108@sun.com> <491CD5CB.4030003@cray.com> <20081114021049.6CFDEC178D6@www2.open-std.org> <20081114030610.02C55CA343B@www2.open-std.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060509 Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Malcolm Cohen wrote: > > Robert Corbett continues to complain about PROTECTED. > > Well, excuse me if we thought users would prefer to be able to pass > PROTECTED variables to INTENT(IN) dummy arguments. It's not > unreasonable to provide something less safe instead of providing > something that's perfectly safe but in practice is nearly useless. It just occurred to me that all you are saying would make sense if the standard prohibited variables with the PROTECTED attribute from being passed as actual arguments to procedures unless the corresponding dummy arguments have the attribute INTENT(IN). If the standard does impose such a restriction, I would very much like to where to find it. Bob Corbett