From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Thu Oct 2 20:40:31 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) id h92IeVJv026515 for sc22wg5-domo; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:40:31 +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 brmea-mail-3.sun.com (brmea-mail-3.Sun.COM [192.18.98.34]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.10/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h92IeM4w026509 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:40:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from corbett@mpkmail.eng.sun.com) Received: from engmail1mpk.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.146.11.21]) by brmea-mail-3.sun.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8T4qAkv018728; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:52:11 -0600 (MDT) Received: from phys-mpkmaila (phys-mpkmaila.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.18.131]) by engmail1mpk.Eng.Sun.COM (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id h8T4q60H004617; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lupa (lupa.Eng.Sun.COM [129.146.78.104]) by mpkmail.eng.sun.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 1 (built Apr 2 2002)) with SMTP id <0HLY00LKMLITQ7@mpkmail.eng.sun.com>; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 21:52:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Robert Corbett Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.3013) Informal letter ballot on the draft FCD To: d.muxworthy@bcs.org.uk Cc: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Reply-to: Robert Corbett Message-id: <0HLY00LKNLIUQ7@mpkmail.eng.sun.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.4.8 SunOS 5.8 sun4u sparc Content-type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-MD5: y9QmA/zwgwZaZRrsiHutuw== X-Spam-Score: 0 () Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk > > Ballot on forwarding N1573 (J3/03-007R1) as the FCD for Fortran 2003. > > > > Deadline: 9 a.m. UK time on October 1st. > > > > > > x Yes, with the following comments > > 1. Can the file-unit-numbers in the ISO_FORTRAN_ENV module take any > value, positive or negative? [178:30-32] says "a file-unit-number > whose value is nonnegative or equal to one of the named constants > INPUT_UNIT, OUTPUT_UNIT, or ERROR_UNIT of the ISO FORTRAN ENV module > (13.8.2)". [360:15-17] says "The value of the default integer scalar > constant INPUT_UNIT identifies ... [snip]. The value shall not be -1.", > and similarly for the other two units. > > This rather bald description implies that negative values may be used > but there is no definition of which values, if any. I think it is clear that INPUT_UNIT, OUTPUT_UNIT, and ERROR_UNIT can have any value other than -1. It might be nice to have a restriction that no two of them can be equal, but I suspect implementations will take care of that. > Further, it > apparently arbitrarily prohibits the value -1 without giving a reason. > Without knowing the intention I cannot offer an edit. The restriction is not arbitrary. The NUMBER= specifier in the INQUIRE statement requires it. Sincerely, Bob Corbett