From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Wed Sep 3 00:21:36 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h82MLa8K094477 for sc22wg5-domo; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 00:21:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov (mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov [130.134.81.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h82MLUCp094472 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 00:21:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from maine@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov) Received: from mail.dfrc.nasa.gov by mailhub.dfrc.nasa.gov with ESMTP for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:18:25 -0700 Received: from altair.dfrc.nasa.gov ([130.134.20.211]) by mail.dfrc.nasa.gov (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-71686U2500L200S0V35) with ESMTP id gov for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:21:30 -0700 Received: by altair.dfrc.nasa.gov (Postfix, from userid 201) id C66DD35755; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:21:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <16213.6117.723936.467035@altair.dfrc.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 15:21:25 -0700 To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2955) Informal letter ballot on the draft FCD In-Reply-To: <3F55169E.90607@cray.com> References: <200309022028.h82KSBRi093441@dkuug.dk> <200309022048.h82KmN99093632@dkuug.dk> <3F55169E.90607@cray.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk Bill Long writes: > I think that going through the interp process, as opposed to fixing > known defects in the draft now, will work. However, I'd like to have > the wording of the interp settled now. The compiler implementation > process begins long before the standard is published (and has already > begun for this version), and it would be a good idea for the > implementations to be working from the same interpretation. Should we > start processing f2003 interps at the November J3 meeting? Sounds good to me....and not at all unlike some commercial software packages that sometimes come with the first set of patches in the box. We might well have a few interps ready to process by the time that the standard is published. Might want to have Dan include f2003 interps on the agenda. -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; Richard.Maine@nasa.gov | experience comes from bad judgment. | -- Mark Twain