From jwagener@amoco.com Sun Nov 13 16:03:45 1994 Received: from interlock.amoco.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA13256 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 14 Nov 1994 05:04:42 +0100 Received: by interlock.amoco.com id AA07916 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 1.1 for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk); Sun, 13 Nov 1994 22:04:20 -0600 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-3); Sun, 13 Nov 1994 22:04:20 -0600 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-2); Sun, 13 Nov 1994 22:04:20 -0600 Received: by interlock.amoco.com (Internal Mail Agent-1); Sun, 13 Nov 1994 22:04:20 -0600 From: jwagener@amoco.com X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Sun, 13 Nov 94 22:03:45 -0600 Message-Id: Subject: JLW informal report on X3J3 meeting #131, Boston To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Item Subject: Message text The principal objectives of this meeting were to (1) resolve the issues pertaining to the ENABLE and allocatable components requirements of Fortran 95, (2) attend to the editorial integration of the Fortran 95 draft standard (007r3), and (2) continue processing the Fortran 90 defect items. With regard to ENABLE and allocatable components, during the opening session of the meeting X3J3 voted not to consider these items further at this meeting, and to communicate to the WG5 management committee that these two items likely cannot be completed in the established timeframe. A letter to this effect was generated during the meeting (94-354) and presented to the head of the WG5 management committee (Jeanne Martin, who was present at the meeting). The WG5 management committee must now decide whether to modify the requirements and meet the currently established schedule for Fortran 95, or to maintain ENABLE and allocatable components as Fortran 95 requirements and possibly slip the schedule. To address the editorial integration, the sections of 007r3 were divided among the subgroups, which were to read the material closely, make any needed editorial changes, and bring any technical issues forward for committee resolution. The editorial review included whether or not the shading had been done appropriately and to determine what should be moved from Annex C into the sections as shaded material. (Large blocks will remain in Annex and pointers to such blocks placed in the appropriate places in the sections.) The assignments were: /JOR: 1,2,3,9,10 /OOF: 4,5,6 /parallel 7,8,13 and the Forall/Pure sections of 12 /interp 11,12 (the rest of 12), 14 In addition I volunteered to update the introduction and David Levine volunteered to identify items (in the entire document) for the index. All of this work was completed except for the review of sections 8 and 13 and the integration of Annex C material into sections 4, 5, and 6. The editorial committee will reflect all of the changes related to this work in the 007r4, which will be available on the server about December 10. As for interpretations, there are now 194 registered defect items, of which X3J3 has approved responses of "ready for WG5" for 151. At this meeting draft responses were approved for 26, and these 26 will be on the post-meeting X3J3 letter ballot. That leaves 17 interpretation items needing X3J3 pre-ballot action. Many of these are associated with particular sections and assigned to the corresponding subgroups, though /interp will keep those that span different sections. Primary emphasis at the next X3J3 meeting, #132 in Houston, Jan 23-27, 1995, will be on finishing the editorial integration, this time involving document 94-0007r4. Based on a suggestion in Boston, and receiving favorable reaction, the section assignments to the subgroups will change in Houston so that each section will have been scrutinized by two different subgroups before the document is released to WG5. The new subgroup assignments will be for /JOR and /parallel to switch sections, and similarly for /OOF and /interp to switch sections. Based on the better-than-expected editorial integration progress at this meeting, it appears certain that X3J3 will have no trouble producing an acceptable Fortran 95 draft standard for consideration by WG5 at its April '95 meeting in Tokyo. Jerry Wagener