From malcolm@nag.co.uk Tue May 20 19:10:20 1997 Received: from red.nag.co.uk ([192.156.217.2]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA02611 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 19:10:11 +0200 Received: from sedi8.nag.co.uk by red.nag.co.uk via SMTP (920330.SGI/920502.SGI) for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk id AA19884; Tue, 20 May 97 18:11:40 +0100 Received: by sedi8.nag.co.uk (920330.SGI/920502.SGI) for @red.nag.co.uk:sc22wg5@dkuug.dk id AA00904; Tue, 20 May 97 18:11:37 +0100 From: malcolm@nag.co.uk (Malcolm Cohen) Message-Id: <9705201711.AA00904@sedi8.nag.co.uk> Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1383) Happy endian? To: pichon@obspm.fr (Bernard PICHON) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 18:11:35 +0000 (BST) Cc: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk In-Reply-To: <199705201631.SAA02119@dkuug.dk> from "Bernard PICHON" at May 20, 97 06:30:26 pm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1051 Bernard PICHON said: > Nowadays, the processors permit lower case letters (the > punching devices and so on are very seldom) and, thus > lower case letters are really equivalent to upper case letters. > > Any other comments from the WG5 ???? Well, Fortran 2K will probably require lowercase letter support by all processors. However, a good philosophical principle is "A difference that makes no difference is no difference." Requiring lowercase letter support in F2K will (a) Change NO current (or, as far as I know, planned) implementations (b) Change the standard-conformance of NO programs on any processors So the situation will remain unchanged - all (otherwise conforming) programs with lowercase letters will be unaffected by this change (because they already conform on all processors) - no Fortran 90+ implementations will need to add lowercase letter support because they already have it. Cheers, -- ...........................Malcolm Cohen, NAG Ltd., Oxford, U.K. (malcolm@nag.co.uk)