From jls@uxb.liv.ac.uk Tue Feb 2 14:41:45 1993 Received: from ib.rl.ac.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA28305 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Wed, 3 Feb 1993 11:43:46 +0100 Received: from mail.liv.ac.uk by ib.rl.ac.uk (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with TCP; Wed, 03 Feb 93 10:43:10 GMT Received: from uxb.liverpool.ac.uk by mailhub.liverpool.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <23391-0@mailhub.liverpool.ac.uk>; Wed, 3 Feb 1993 10:36:33 +0000 Received: from uxb.liv.ac.uk (uxh.liv.ac.uk) by uxb.liv.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1-LIV-CSD) id AA20134; Wed, 3 Feb 93 10:36:26 GMT From: jls@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Dr.J.L.Schonfelder) Message-Id: <8055.9302021441@uxb.liv.ac.uk > Subject: Re: (SC22.268) Ballot on N1267, CD 1539:1991 Amendment 1 To: FOLLETT@betvmic1.vnet.ibm.com (Follett RH) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 93 14:41:45 GMT Cc: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk (SC22/WG5 members) In-Reply-To: <199301282300.AA22752@dkuug.dk>; from "Follett RH" at Jan 28, 93 5:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 The problem appears to have arisen because when we started out on this exercise the varying string standard was designated as an addendum This was interpreted by us as meaning what it normally does in English "in addition to". Somewhere along the line I dont know where it became an amendment which again means "a change to". The whole point of this standard is that it is NOT a change to it is an addition to the basic Fortran 90 language capability and what is more one that can be although it does not have to be written in Fortran 90. The intention of WG5 was that this should be the model for how other specialised functionalities could be standardised as additional collateral/auxiliary facilities to the core language. There was no intent that this or anyother similar standard ever of necessity become part of the core language standard document. The nearest precedent I would suggest is the elementary functions standard that is additional to Ada. How was that handled? As an amendment, an addendum, a separate standard, or an additional part? -- Dr.J.L.Schonfelder Director, Computing Services Dept. University of Liverpool, UK Phone: +44(51)794 3716 FAX : +44(51)794 3759 email: jls@liv.ac.uk