From maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov Mon Dec 22 19:48:12 1997 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov ([130.134.65.117]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA15170 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:48:10 +0100 Received: (from maine@localhost) by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (8.8.6/8.8.6) id KAA07510; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:48:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:48:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199712221848.KAA07510@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> From: Richard Maine To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Edit missing from N1282 (allocatable TR) For the next f2k draft (J3/98-007), I'm working right now on putting in the edits from the "allocatable TR" (well, that's what I call it in my notes to myself, as I find "Enhanced Data Type Facilities" to be a bit too broad to remind me exactly what its about). I noticed one clear omission from the edits. I'm not entirely sure how much difference this makes for a TR. I've put the obviously needed edit into the f2k draft. It seems a bit much overhead to consider issuing a corrigendum for a TR. My inclination, if its too late to get the fix into the TR itself, would be to just let the correction go into f2k. On the other hand, if the TR can still be fixed, we might want to do that. Its an easy fix, and so obvious as to (I'd hope) be non-controversial. I'll leave such decisions to WG5 and the editor of the TR (Malcolm). The edit itself: After spending a lot of time discussing allocatable dummy arguments and function results, the TR failed to delete a constraint that specifically prohibitted such. In X3J3/96-007r1 [48:1-2], third constraint after R506: Constraint: The ALLOCATABLE attribute may be used only when declaring an array that is not a dummy argument or a function result. My first inclination was to delete this constraint entirely, but I didn't off-hand spot any other constraint that otherwise disallowed allocatable scalars. (There is probably text that implies such a restriction, but it should be a constraint). So I left the array part, resulting in Constraint: The ALLOCATABLE attribute may be used only when declaring an array. -- Richard Maine maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov