From owner-sc22wg5 Thu Aug 9 18:29:43 2001 Received: from patan.sun.com (patan.Sun.COM [192.18.98.43]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA83439 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:29:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from keith.bierman@sun.com) Received: from engmail1.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.146.1.13]) by patan.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05202; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:29:30 -0600 (MDT) Received: from holosuite.Eng.Sun.COM (holosuite.Eng.Sun.COM [152.70.61.44]) by engmail1.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v2.1p1) with ESMTP id JAA06655; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sun.com (vpn-129-150-4-199.EBay.Sun.COM [129.150.4.199]) by holosuite.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA27797; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B72B9B6.FAE0F5BE@sun.com> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 09:26:30 -0700 From: keith bierman Organization: SunMicrosystems Laboratories X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Maine CC: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2171) Named Scratch Files in Fortran 2000 - Rationale References: <200108091200.OAA82583@dkuug.dk> <200108091508.RAA83206@dkuug.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Richard Maine wrote: > > Dan Nagle writes: > > The design flaw found is that by using the status= with > > a value of scratch, the programmer can't inform the processor > > what to do regarding an existing file of the same name > > (which would have been conveyed by old, new or replace). > > My proposed fix would be to just delete named scratch files. > Of course, this may just illustrate my intransigence, as I > didn't like the idea in the first place. > Richard is, of course, correct (and as far as my memory serves, the reason this feature didn't get in earlier ... after all, what precisely is the intended semantic difference between: open named scratch and open named, status='delete' ?? -- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM Sun Microsystems Laboratories | kbierman@acm.org 901 San Antonio Road UMPK 31-101 | 650-352-4432 voice+fax Palo Alto, California 94303 | sun internal 68207 Copyright 2001