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From: jkr@letterbox.rl.ac.uk (John Reid)
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Here is some hot news from the Boston meeting of X3J3. 

Jerry Wagener had announced that subgroups would meet early in the
meeting to consider how to respond to the negative ballots on enable
and allocatable components, but failed to carry the committee with
him.  There were straw votes of 14-5-2 to stop work at once on
allocatable components and 12-8-1 to stop work on enable. A formal vote
15-3 favoured sending a letter to WG5 saying that they will not be
ready.  The argument was led by Jeanne Martin who felt that the
committee had to go into a totally editorial mode to get the document
into shape within the agreed time frame. 

The technical content that X3J3 is working on is E14 minus    
   1. Enable and
   2. Allocatable arrays as structure components, 
but plus
   1. User-defined elemental procedures and
   2. Automatic deallocation of allocatable arrays.

Malcolm and I had both come to the meeting to work on these outstanding
issues, so this was a great disappointment. In the case of enable, I
saw no 'show-stoppers' in the ballot, but I have to agree that
consensus had not been reached by the deadline set by WG5 (August
meeting).

The WG5 management committee must now decide whether to endorse this
action by X3J3. I am very disappointed that it has not already
considered the implications of the failed X3J3 ballots. Malcolm and I
could have been saved wasted journeys.


John Reid.