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From: John Reid <jkr@rl.ac.uk>
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Subject: A partial comment about "Status of Repository items"
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As the promoter of the following items, I agree with John's opinion !

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>> These are the items that I believe are adopted in the present
>> draft Fortran 2000, sometimes not in the way that was suggested:


>>   93  New keywords READ_EOR, READ_EOF, WRITE_EOR (?), WRITE_EOF (?)
>>       in INQUIRE statements
see Sect. 9.10.4 and 13.8.3.2

In Sect. 9.10.4 (3) and (4), I suggest to replace
"With a processor-dependent negative integer value of the constant ... "
by
"With the processor-dependent negative integer value of the constant ... "
      ^^^

>>   94  New keywords IS_EOR and IS_EOF in INQUIRE, READ and WRITE
>>       statements
Not (no more) necessary.

>>   95  New keywords DEFAULT_READ and DEFAULT_WRITE in INQUIRE statement
see Sect. 13.8.3.1

>>   99  Handling of error messages
see Sect. 9.10.5

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>> Finally, these are the items that I believe have been not been
>> adopted:

>>   90  Four new elemental intrinsic functions: TRUNCATE, ROUND, IBCHNG,
>>       ICOUNT
I consider that IBCHNG and ICOUNT are (still) useful !
TRUNCATE and ROUND may be discarded.

>>   91  PATTERN== in bit manipulation functions such as IBCLR, IBSET, IBCH=
NG
I need !
But I can write a DO loop for this (optimisation ?)

>>   92  Reserved words
Hum, It is holeless !!!

>>   97  New transformational functions: POSITION and LOCATION
>>   98  New functions to handle arrays: SCRIPT and SCALAR
May be for Fortran 2010 !!


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Dr. Bernard PICHON
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