From dtm@holyrood.ed.ac.uk Mon Jan 22 13:04:10 2001 Received: from holyrood.ed.ac.uk (holyrood.ed.ac.uk [129.215.16.14]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA04930 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 13:04:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dtm@holyrood.ed.ac.uk) Received: (from dtm@localhost) by holyrood.ed.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA20088 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 12:04:03 GMT Message-Id: <200101221204.MAA20088@holyrood.ed.ac.uk> Date: 22 Jan 2001 12:04:03 GMT From: D Muxworthy Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1987) N1423: WG5 letter ballot on interpretations To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Yes No Number Title -x- --- 000014 Format of complex numbers in list-directed and namelist output -x- --- 000015 Commas in list-directed output -x- --- 000032 Is the TRANSFER function result undefined? -x- --- 000073 Is padding allowed in storage sequences? -x- --- 000075 Defined assignment and INTENT(IN) dummy arguments in PURE procedures "Yes" to 00075 on the assumption that Makki's point is addressed. -x- --- F90/000197 Relationship of NEAREST and SPACING -x- --- JP-12 Bounds of each dimension of an array pointer Comment on F90/000197: The answer to interp F90/000197 is correct but not helpful. Section 13.14.76 of F95 (13.13.75 in F90) is the only place in the document which refers to "machine representable numbers", while the summary section 13.11.12 uses the term "processor number" which is again the only usage. The remainder of the floating point manipulation functions deal with model numbers, as noted at 13.7. NEAREST is thus different from the other functions but it is easy to overlook this. The example used in the description still refers to the basic model however and would appear to indicate that NEAREST(X,1.) will normally have the same value as X + SPACING(X). I am not suggesting a change to the interpretation answer but it would be helpful to have a note in F200x highlighting this difference, and giving an example of when NEAREST(X,1.) is different from X + SPACING(X). Is this likely to be true only at extreme values? David Muxworthy