From helbig@man.ac.uk Thu Jan 6 15:29:00 2000 Received: from thales.astro.rug.nl (root@thales.astro.rug.nl [129.125.6.224]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA15512 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:29:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from helbig@man.ac.uk) Received: from gladia.astro.rug.nl (gladia.astro.rug.nl [129.125.6.17]) by thales.astro.rug.nl with SMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.1) id PAA10489 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:24:07 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 15:21:21 +0100 Message-Id: <00010615212100@man.ac.uk> From: helbig@man.ac.uk (Phillip Helbig) To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1693) Some discussion points/wishes X-VMS-To: SC22WG5@DKUUG.DK X-VMS-Cc: HELBIG > I run into some inconsistencies and limitations of Fortran 95 which I would > like to suggest to change/improve in Fortran 2000. Can one still make suggestions? :-| > 1. In free source form one or more blanks shall be used to separate adjacent > keywords except in the following cases. > I suggest to add ELSE WHERE because END WHERE and ELSE IF are also in that > list. I suspect this is not the case because a) it didn't exist in F77, so there was no worry with backwards compatibility and b) "elsewhere" is an English word, whereas "elseif" and "endwhere" are not. But I agree; it should be allowed for consistency. > 3. It would be convenient to be able to specify ADVANCE='NO' also for list > directed I/O. Why was this excluded? Probably because list-directed I/O is so platform dependent anyway that allowing ADVANCE='NO' here would result in disappointment, since it wouldn't work as expected, due to the freedom of list-directed I/O, in many cases. -- Phillip Helbig Email ......... p.helbig@jb.man.ac.uk University of Manchester Tel. ... +44 1477 571 321 (ext. 2635) Jodrell Bank Observatory Fax ................ +44 1477 571 618 Macclesfield Telex ................ 36149 JODREL G UK-Cheshire SK11 9DL Web ... http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~pjh/ ************************ currently working at ******************************* Kapteyn Instituut Email (above preferred) helbig@astro.rug.nl Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Tel. ...................... +31 50 363 4067 Postbus 800 Fax ....................... +31 50 363 6100 NL-9700 AV Groningen The Netherlands Web ... http://gladia.astro.rug.nl/~helbig/ My opinions are not necessarily those of either of the above institutes.