From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Sat May 23 04:38:08 2009 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 8FC9AC56CF9; Sat, 23 May 2009 04:38:08 +0200 (CET DST) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org X-Greylist: delayed 401 seconds by postgrey-1.18 at www2.open-std.org; Sat, 23 May 2009 04:38:07 CET DST Received: from smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.64.97]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32277C3BB09 for ; Sat, 23 May 2009 04:37:42 +0200 (CET DST) Received: (qmail 67104 invoked from network); 23 May 2009 02:31:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.32?) (van.snyder@76.208.173.57 with plain) by smtp124.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 May 2009 02:31:00 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: WCNdSHkVM1kBphDaF8am9W4SmgoKEeeicYFNvlbD9pZ7MQS7xbruFGkZTAwJXTDVaQw0IuEl7c.S9d9W6t97R5iOuVjRjsRqrryhN.zeP2xu.ab8Y5TzA3In5s_yugPKOGNcSJypyUM7ZRldkSWChjs89vYw81djI_K6.pEFUzq43PasmQbj4dGmFngYqzhkEOuF.cdD78F4VFpLpUihoocIQK16p.WgiYFMqO.cS_XtCYziAiMkNRC56Vk8vEmbguGTif4_0sAglss- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <4A175E1C.3080509@jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 19:23:24 -0700 From: Van Snyder Reply-To: van.snyder@jpl.nasa.gov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WG5 Subject: TR on units Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk I'm preparing a proposal and draft for a Type-2 TR on physical or engineering units. I'm doing this because of the sentiment expressed at the May WG5 meeting that there would not be any significant projects in the next Fortran revision after 2008. Physical unit systems for programming languages have been high on my sponsor's list for over 25 years, starting with the "tinman" proposal for what became Ada. If there is no hope to develop a physical unit system for Fortran before I retire, my sponsor will in all likelihood stop sending me to meetings and stop paying INCITS dues as soon as Fortran 2008 is published. If you want my current draft of this TR, I am happy to send it to you. Van