From jwagener@amoco.com Mon May 9 11:11:43 1994 Received: from interlock.amoco.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA24416 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 9 May 1994 23:28:56 +0200 Received: by interlock.amoco.com id AA05378 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 1.1 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk); Mon, 9 May 1994 16:28:48 -0500 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-3); Mon, 9 May 1994 16:28:48 -0500 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-2); Mon, 9 May 1994 16:28:48 -0500 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Mon, 9 May 1994 16:28:48 -0500 From: jwagener@amoco.com X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Mon, 9 May 94 16:11:43 -0500 Message-Id: Subject: jlw informal report on X3J3 meeting 129 To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Item Subject: Message text jlw informal report on X3J3 meeting 129 1994 May 2-6, Incline Village, NV The principal objectives of this meeting were essentially two: (1) make progress on the WG5 technical requirements (B9 items - see X3J3/94-089) for Fortran 95 and (2) update the key standing documents in preparation for the upcoming WG5 meeting. X3J3/94-009 is the standing document containing detailed proposals related to the B9 items; 009 entries with "approved" status will be integrated into X3J3/94-007, which is the draft F95 standard. As of the end of the meeting, the 009 contains approved entries for B9 items A2, A3, A4, A5, B1, B2, B4.1, B4.3, C1, and C3. The 009 also contains entires in "draft" status, which are detailed proposals supported in principle by X3J3 but which need more work and have not yet gained full approval; 009 entries in this category at the end of the meeting pertain to B9 items B4.2 (language evolution - direction approved but draft received after the meeting) and C5 (condition handling). Proposals exist for items B3 (allocatable components) and C2 (parameterized derived types), but these two areas have turned out to be harder than anticipated, problems remain, and these proposals have not been placed in the 009. On item C4 (IEEE support), X3J3 will recommend to WG5 that this functionality be achieved with a collateral standard. Both the 007 and the 009 will be updated and made available to WG5 for its upcoming meeting. The 009 should be completely uptodate by that time; the 007 will reflect corrigenda (from the 006) and editorial (from the 008) decisions but is not likely to include much from the 009 by the time of the WG5 meeting. There are now nearly 180 items in document X3J3/94-006 (Fortran 90 defect management), of which 15 will appear on a post-meeting X3J3 letter ballot and 39 are unresolved. With minor edits, and except for the "stability issue", responses were approved to the comments on the recent letter ballot regarding withdrawal of Fortran 77 (X3J3/94-153, attachment C). The stability issue response will be reworded to be more explicit about the status of F90 defect management. The general feeling at this meeting seemed to be that in order to make the April 1995 target for delivery of the revision, the next X3J3 meeting (August) must be the last one for technical work on the revision, and the November and January meetings must be devoted to integration of the 009 into the 007 and editorial polishing of the 007. Jerry Wagener