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From: walt@netcom.com (Walt Brainerd)
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I am passing along this message from Richard Hanson at IMSL
for your consideration.  I would encourage those of you
interested in this topic to communicate with him to begin
to develop some more ideas.

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Date: Mon, 20 Jul 92 09:36:19 CDT
From: hanson@imsl3.imsl.com (Richard Hanson)
To: walt@netcom.netcom.com
Subject: Re:  F90 and beyond

Walt:

  I expect that the last thing on your mind is a follow-on
to F90.   I would like to see a mature and useful offering
put forward about exception handling in the next review, 1996.
I fear that if there is no progress on this front there will
be paper-over attempts to deal with exceptions such as
the recent LCAS work by Mary Payne, et al.  To be adopted this
proposal will have to be carefully done, perhaps adapting in
a benign way to non-IEEE 754 arithmetic.  Can you put me in 
contact with others who have an "axe to grind" for exception
handling?   I read an early proposal for exception
handling made during the Fortran 8x days.  It was not up
to the requirements of such a language feature.

Richard Hanson