From jwagener@amoco.com Mon Jul 19 04:00:54 1993 Received: from interlock.amoco.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA07377 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 19 Jul 1993 16:00:33 +0200 Received: by interlock.amoco.com id AA05020 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 1.1 for SC22WG5@dkuug.dk); Mon, 19 Jul 1993 08:52:07 -0500 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-2); Mon, 19 Jul 1993 08:52:07 -0500 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Mon, 19 Jul 1993 08:52:07 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 93 09:00:54 CDT Message-Id: <9307191400.AA28419@trc.amoco.com> From: Jerrold L. Wagener To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: informal report on the 1993 WG5 meeting X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 JLW informal report on the 1993 July 5-9 WG5 meeting in Berchtesgaden, Germany The two principal objectives of this meeting were (1) to process the results of the Fortran 90 defect management activities and (2) to establish requirements for the 1995/96 revision of the Fortran standard. With regard to Fortran 90 defect management, Technical Corrigendum 1 (a list of edits to 1539:1991) was prepared which contains the WG5-approved items from X3J3/93-006r with defect type ERRATUM. One item in the 006r, 000013, not approved in the WG5 letter ballot but reconsidered and re-recommended by X3J3, was reconsidered and approved by WG5 and placed in Technical Corrigendum 1. No action was taken on 006r items with defect type INTERPRETATION; the two options available were to collect the approved interpretations into either (a) an ISO technical report or (b) a new annex to 1539:1991. The fact that neither of these options were taken appears to mean that these interpretations will become official only by incorporation into the 1995/96 revision. By far the most significant result of this meeting was resolution B9 (WG5- N930), entitled "Content of the 1995 Revision". It specifies three categories of requirements: A. most important, B. highly desirable, and C. possible consideration [my classifications]. In the A category are the corrections, clarifications, and interpretations (cci) from defect management, modest editorial improvements, and the HPF features of FORALL, pure functions, and adding the DIM argument to MAXLOC and MINLOC. In the B category are object initializations, removal of conflicts with IEEE 754, ALLOCATABLE structure components, identification of additional obsolescent features, and several modest I/O enhancements. In the C category are a CPU time intrinsic function, derived-type parameters, allowing user-defined functions in specification expressions, intrinsic functions to provide support for IEEE 754, exception handling, object-oriented programming, and derived-type I/O. Resolution B9 requests primary development body (X3J3) analysis of these and related items for the 1995 revision, and encourages X3J3 to "subcontract" development work as may be appropriate. The 1995 revision requirements will be finalized at the August 1994 WG5 meeting. Though various procedural issues were debated in typical (sometimes passionate) fashion, WG5 successfully resisted the urge to over-manage the Fortran 90 interpretation and Fortran 95 development activities, and set firm directions for the 1995 revision. Therefore the strategic plan for Fortran standardization, established a year ago and reaffirmed (with updated schedule) at this meeting, appears to be working well, with increasing levels of confidence and trust in the associated processes. Jerry Wagener 1993 July 19