From j.s.morgan@liverpool.ac.uk Wed Mar 29 16:13:10 2000 Received: from mailhub2.liv.ac.uk (mailhub2.liv.ac.uk [138.253.100.95]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA22094 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:13:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j.s.morgan@liverpool.ac.uk) Received: from pcmail2.liv.ac.uk ([138.253.252.15]) by mailhub2.liv.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12aJDV-0001nB-00 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:13:05 +0100 Received: from [138.253.102.198] (helo=pc102198.liv.ac.uk) by pcmail2.liv.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12aJDT-0006Jt-00 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:13:03 +0100 From: Steve Morgan Reply-To: J.S.Morgan@liverpool.ac.uk To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1739) Interpretation 001 In-Reply-To: <200003291150.NAA20944@dkuug.dk> Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:13:04 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Win32 Version 4.1.5 Build (43) X-Authentication: IMSP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII > I stand by my position that the standard is unambiguous and does not > need an edit. Please bear in mind how clumsy the corrigendum procedure > is. Making a change to the Fortran 2000 draft or even adding an > example is quite another matter. How about an extra sentence in the > ANSWER part to this effect? > How could I have forgotten (i.e. how clumsy...) :-) Yes, I agree - something along the lines of Lawrie's words in the interpretation text would suit me... ...interpretation of things like implied do indicies is that a. they have the scope of the implied do and b. they are implicitly declared only in that scope not in the surrounding host scope. but can we all agree on that! Kurt and Lawrie seem to think not. However, unless we get agreement, different compilers will continue to do it differently and that helps no one. Cheers, Steve. > Best wishes, > > John. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. J. S. Morgan Tel. 0151-794-3746 (3719 for messages) Computing Services Department Fax. 0151-794-3759 The University of Liverpool email. J.S.Morgan @ liverpool.ac.uk Chadwick Building Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZF ---------------------------------------------------------------------