From Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk Mon Jan 20 18:50:07 1997 Received: from oxmail4.ox.ac.uk (oxmail4.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.33]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA16705 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 18:49:50 +0100 Received: from ermine.ox.ac.uk by oxmail4 with SMTP (PP) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:48:37 +0000 Received: from [163.1.85.1] (com1.etrc.ox.ac.uk [163.1.85.1]) by ermine.ox.ac.uk (1.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA19277 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:49:37 GMT X-Sender: mellis@ermine.ox.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:52:56 +0000 To: sc22wg5 From: Miles Ellis Subject: Informal Review of Conditional Compilation Draft Standard David Epstein distributed an email version of the latest draft of this document on 13th January, and I hope to have a properly formatted version on the server very shortly as N1243. This document will be discussed at the special meeting of the Development Body on Wednesday evening in Las Vegas, when I shall expect the DB to provide recommendations to the full WG in the form of draft resolutions as to what should be done next. These draft resolutions will be discussed by the full WG during preliminary resolution processing on Thursday. In order to expedite the discussions on the Wednesday evening, I have been asked to conduct an informal review of the document by electronic mail, so that everyone, including those who cannot attend the Las Vegas meeting, will be able to contribute their opinions. As a (very) brief reminder of the recent history of this topic, WG5 resolved in Tokyo "that preprocessing facilities are an important consideration for many members of the Fortran community. However WG5 does not believe that such facilities should be incorporated into the Fortran Standard (ISO/IEC IS 1539-1). WG5 therefore invites members and member bodies to make proposals for further action, including specification of requirements and nominations for project editor." Six months later in San Diego WG5 resolved "that WG5 intends to produce a new part of the Fortran standard to address the needs of the Fortran user community for conditional compilation. WG5 accepts the offer of the US member body to nominate David Epstein as project editor and requests him to form a development body and to produce alternative proposals in this area for consideration at the next WG5 meeting." In Dresden David Epstein presented a draft of a Standard based on the conditional compilation approach, while Keith Bierman presented a proposal based on fpp. WG5 resolved "that WG5 directs its convenor to request SC22 that the work item be divided to provide Part 3 of the Fortran standard, which describes conditional compilation, and to request SC22 to appoint David Epstein as Project Editor." SC22 agreed to this subdivision at its Plenary in September, and appointed David Epstein as Project Editor. In Las Vegas, WG5 needs to decide if the current draft is ready for submission to SC22 for its first CD ballot, whether it requires more work, or whether some other action is required. Please read the draft, either in its email form or in the properly laid out form which will, hopefully, be available later this week, and then reply to me by email as follows NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY 5TH FEBRUARY. (Note that whether you copy your informal ballot to the whole WG5 list is up to you. It might be helpful, but you may wish to keep your coments conficential - at least until after the ballot closes.) Informal Ballot on N1243 (Draft Standard for Conditional Compilation in Fortran) __________ I believe that the current draft is ready for | YES | NO | submission to SC22 for its first CD ballot |_____|____| If NO, please provide details of what changes you wish to see made in order that the document will be suitable for submission to SC22 for balloting. (signed) .......................... (date) .......................... Return to Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk to arrive no later than 2359 GMT on Wednesday 5th February 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Miles Ellis Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre University of Oxford, 37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, ENGLAND Telephone: +44 1865 270528 Fax: +44 1865 270527 Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk WWW: http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/Personal/Miles/Miles_Ellis.html