From jwagener@ionet.net Sun Nov 17 19:13:59 1996 Received: from mail.ionet.net (ultra2.ionet.net [206.41.128.42]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA22030 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 19:13:55 +0100 Received: from erehwon (tsip146.ionet.net [206.28.164.155]) by mail.ionet.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA14707 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:07:54 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: InterCon tcpCONNECT4 4.0 (Macintosh) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <9611171214.AA39002@erehwon> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:14:39 -0500 From: "Jerrold L. Wagener" To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: informal JLW report on X3J3 meeting 139 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: Inline 1996 Nov 16 X3J3 meeting 139 (#139) took place Nov 11-15 in Las Vegas, NV. The WG5 convenor was present to work with X3J3 in organizing the joint WG5/X3J3 meeting in February. The principal objectives of #139 were to (1) progress the technical work on the Fortran 2000 (F2000) requirements and (2) prepare for the Feb joint meeting. Good progress is being made on the F2000 requirements. At this meeting syntax was approved for asynchronous I/O and parameterized derived types; firm specifications were approved for derived-type I/O and procedure pointers. Technical work was completed on two minor technical enhancements (M.4 and M.10) and a new minor technical enhancement was added (M.17) - see 97-010. Except for interval arithmetic specifications, no work is scheduled on any of the current F2000 requirements during the Feb meeting. The Feb joint meeting is to deal almost exclusively with completing the identification of F2000 requirements and doing as much technical development as possible on new requirements identified at that time - the requirements identification process is scheduled to be completed by Wednesday morning of the meeting, with the rest of the week devoted to technical development. Evening sessions are scheduled for the C interoperability TR and the conditional compilation part; these sessions may result in resolutions, but otherwise these projects will not have plenary agenda time. Other than the opening and closing sessions, all plenary sessions will be devoted to processing the work of three ad hoc technical groups: High Performance Computing (HPC), Data Enhancements (DATA), and Miscellaneous Requirements (MISC). At #139 X3J3 "filtered" a long list of potential requirements currently under discussion by WG5/misc; the results will be added to the WG5/misc email discussions. X3J3 also discussed a "minimal" object-oriented extension, which will be added to the WG5/data email discussions. X3J3 expects that HPC will focus primarily on interval arithmetic during the Feb meeting. HPC will comprise the union of WG5/hpc and X3J3/hpc; DATA will comprise the union of WG5/data and X3J3/data; MISC will comprise the union of WG5/msc, X3J3/io, and X3J3/jor. The next meeting of X3J3 (#140) will be the joint meeting with WG5, Feb 10-14, 1997, in Las Vegas. Jerry