From owner-sc22wg5+sc22wg5-dom8=www.open-std.org@open-std.org Wed Mar 14 13:28:44 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www.open-std.org Received: by www.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 57A6C9DB112; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:28:44 +0100 (CET) Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from exprod6og105.obsmtp.com (exprod6og105.obsmtp.com [64.18.1.189]) by www.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBAA3569A1 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:28:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from CFWEX01.americas.cray.com ([136.162.34.11]) (using TLSv1) by exprod6ob105.postini.com ([64.18.5.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKT2CO+Ga3GL8xKCH+mh7kNVknSIehRHk5@postini.com; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 05:28:43 PDT Received: from fortran.us.cray.com (172.31.19.200) by CFWEX01.americas.cray.com (172.30.88.25) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.355.2; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:28:36 -0500 Message-ID: <4F608EFB.1020609@cray.com> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:28:43 -0500 From: Bill Long Reply-To: Organization: Cray Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sc22wg5 Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4640) Part 2 of the standard References: <20120313200407.EBAB39DB112@www.open-std.org> <20120314115650.BE9429DB112@www.open-std.org> In-Reply-To: <20120314115650.BE9429DB112@www.open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk On 3/14/12 6:46 AM, David Muxworthy wrote: > On 13 Mar 2012 John Reid wrote: > >> I promised at Garching to look into the conversion to Fortran 2003 of the procedures of the varying length strings module that are not included in Part 1 of the Standard. These are the I/O procedures GET, PUT and PUT_LINE and the substring manipulation procedures EXTRACT, INSERT, REMOVE, REPLACE, and INSERT. > > This was undertaken in the context that provision of an updated module would allow withdrawal of the standard. Since then we have had the results of the systematic review of the standard (11 confirm, 2 stabilize, 19 abstain) so formally the standard is confirmed until the next review in 2016. > > The review also showed that a surprising number of countries (7) have national standards identical to the ISO one and five answered 'yes' to: "Is this International Standard used in your country without national adoption or are products used in your country based on this standard?". > It is likely that these "yes" answers were uninformed. Perhaps they thought the question was about the base Fortran standard. We get benchmarks from many countries and in 15 years I do not recall any that used Part 2 facilities. I agree with Nick's comment that the focus of John's task was to determine whether additional intrinsics should be considered for Part 1. Cheers, Bill > It would seem best for WG5 to do nothing more for the time being. > > David > _______________________________________________ > J3 mailing list > J3@j3-fortran.org > http://j3-fortran.org/mailman/listinfo/j3 -- Bill Long longb@cray.com Fortran Technical Support & voice: 651-605-9024 Bioinformatics Software Development fax: 651-605-9142 Cray Inc./Cray Plaza, Suite 210/380 Jackson St./St. Paul, MN 55101