From jwagener@ionet.net Mon Jul 29 17:36:29 1996 Received: from ultra2.ionet.net (ultra2.ionet.net [204.96.200.42]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA09916 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 17:36:27 +0200 Received: from Zvyvogs (tsip49.ionet.net [206.28.164.58]) by ultra2.ionet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id KAA29609 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:33:57 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: InterCon TCP/Connect II 2.3.2d8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <9607291040.AA17570@Zvyvogs> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 10:40:17 -0600 From: "Jerrold L. Wagener" To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: informal JLW report on the WG5 Dresden meeting Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: Inline This meeting was held July 22-26, 1996, in Dresden, Germany, with 26 attendees from seven countries. The primary objectives of the meeting were to (1) advance the three technical report projects and (2) finalize the requirements for Fortran 2000. The technical report on IEEE floating point exception handling (N1195r1) was advanced to the PDTR (aka CD) stage following resolution of several minor points (N1213). The technical report on allocatable components (N1196) was advanced to the PDTR stage, with an additional note on optimization (N1212). The technical report on C interoperability (N1178) was continued, with "map_to" functionality added (N1214), but was not advanced to the PDTR stage. Additional Fortran 2000 requirements (other than the technical reports) were established, and documented in N1215; these requirements are: derived type I/ O, asynchronous I/O, procedure variables, interval arithmetic (N1209), parameterized derived types(N1217), and (unspecified) "miscellaneous technical enhancements". In addition, WG5 identifed two principal areas of emphasis for Fortran 2000: - high performance numerical, scientific, and engineering programming; - high quality data abstraction and user extensibility features. Subgroups were formed for each of these areas and will report on possible additional Fortran 2000 requirements at the next WG5 meeting (February 1997). WG5 also decided at this meeting to make conditional compilation Part 3 of the Fortran Standard, and chose the "Fortran-like" form of conditional compilation (N1192) for this part. Next summer's WG5 meeting will be in Vienna, Austria (July); the 1998 summer WG5 meeting will be in Trollhattan, Sweden (June or August). Intervening joint meetings with X3J3 are planned for February 1997/98 in the US; the 1997 joint meeting will be February 10-14 in Las Vegas, NV. Jerry Wagener