From maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov Tue Sep 3 17:45:25 1996 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (altair.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.34.72]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA23602 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:45:19 +0200 Received: by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA07218; Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:47:04 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 08:47:04 -0700 Message-Id: <199609031547.IAA07218@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> From: Richard Maine To: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk CC: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk, maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: <199608211725.TAA06905@dkuug.dk> (Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk) Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1162) Review of N1192 - Conditional Compilation (Part 3) Miles, _____ I believe that N1192 is ready for submission | | to SC22 for balloting as a Committee Draft |_____| for Part 3 of the Fortran Standard | NO | |_____| If NO, give reasons and suggested work to make the document suitable for submission to SC22: Whereas I concur with the general direction of the draft, I believe that it has had insufficient time for refinement in its current form. Until the Dresden meeting, it was not yet even decided which of the major alternatives ("fortran-like" vs "cpp-like") was preferred. Also, the "fortran-like" alternative selected recently underwent major prunning. Again, whereas I agreed with that pruning (and even had a part in suggesting it), it was a major change adopted relatively late in the process. It is typical of human nature (well, mine anyway) that when several proposals are on the table, they do not get as careful a review as when the one selected proposal is being refined. We have just now passed the stage of selecting among the proposals. Whereas there has of course, been substantial refinement of the proposals during this process, it is now time to do the final refinement. There is always a desire and need to progress the work as rapidly as feasable, but I see no unusual urgency that justifies skipping the final refinement steps for CoCo. The above comments are more procedural than about specific technical points. I have not spent sufficient time reviewing the technical content of the document in its current form, and I doubt that I am alone in that. Signed: Richard Maine........................ Date: 3 Sept 96...... Country: USA............................... This is an individual vote -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Richard Maine maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov