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From: John Reid <jkr@rl.ac.uk>
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To: Bernard.Pichon@obs-nice.fr
Subject: Re: A partial comment about "Status of Repository items"
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Bernard,

Your message to wg5 bounced because you sent it from
Bernard.Pichon@obs-nice.fr instead of Bernard.Pichon@obspm.fr. Do you
want your address to be changed in our list or do you want both to be
there? For now, I have forwarded it for you.

> As the promoter of the following items, I agree with John's opinion !

Good.
 
> ======================================================================
> 
> >> 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 ... "
>       ^^^

(3) is OK. (4) needs correcting. I will include it in a paper of mine
on minor edits. 

> >>   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
> 
> ======================================================================
> 
> >> 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.

I will move this to the partially-adopted list.
 
> >>   91  PATTERN= in bit manipulation functions such as IBCLR, IBSET, IBCHNG
> 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 !!

I expect to receive a request from the French national body in due course.

Best wishes,

John.