2015 News

20 December 2015

New Documents

N2092 Fortran Interpretations awaiting J3 and WG5 ballot (Whitlock)
N2091 WG5 straw ballot 11 and J3 letter ballot 35 on Fortran 2008 interpretations (Reid)

9 December 2015

Coarray TS published

The TS on additional coarray features was published on Nov. 19 as ISO/IEC TS 18508:2015 Information technology - Additional Parallel Features in Fortran.

Corrigendum 4

J3 has completed its ballot on the five interpretations that were agreed at its October meeting and the WG5 straw ballot N2085 on these has commenced. Because these five interpretations do not seem to be controversial, David Muxworthy has prepared a draft of Corrigendum 4 N2088 on the assumption that all their edits will be accepted and a straw vote N2089 on it has commenced. It is hoped that Corrigendum 4 will be send to SC22 before the end of 2015.

New Documents

N2089 WG5 straw ballot on draft Corrigendum 4 (Reid)
N2088 Draft Technical Corrigendum 4 for Fortran 2008, with comments for WG5 (Muxworthy)
N2086 Fortran Interpretations awaiting WG5 ballot (Whitlock)
N2085 WG5 straw ballot 10 on Fortran 2008 interpretations (Reid)

16 October 2015

New Documents

N2084 Boulder 2016 meeting: Local Arrangements (Nagle)

30 September 2015

New Documents

N2083 Convener's report from SC22 meeting (Reid)
N2082 Complete list of features to be included in next revision (Reid) - supersedes N2078

24 September 2015

Coarray TS sent for publication

WG5 has agreed that the revision of the draft TS on "Additional Parallel Features in Fortran", N2074, made after the London meeting is ready for publication. It was sent to SC22 today.

Corrigendum 4

WG5 has approved, see N2080, all the interpretations in N2062 some with minor changes. Corrigendum 4 will be constructed soon. It will include these edits and those approved in N2047.

New Documents

N2081 Result of the WG5 straw ballot on N2074 (Reid)
N2080 Result of WG5 straw ballot 9 on Fortran 2008 interpretations (Reid)
N2068 Minutes of the London 2015 meeting (Muxworthy)

14 August 2015

Coarray TS nearly ready for publication

The draft TS on "Additional Parallel Features in Fortran" passed its ballot, see N2065, without any NO votes, but with 3 countries (Germany, Japan, and UK) voting YES with comments. All the comments were considered at the meeting of WG5 in London, August 3-7, 2015 and the responses have been agreed, see N2066. A modified TS that accords with these responses has been constructed by the editor, see N2074. Details of the changes made are in the editor's report, N2075. It is being checked in a WG5 straw vote, N2079, that terminates on 12 September. It is hoped that it will be sent to ISO for publication soon after this.

Meeting of WG5 in London

WG5 met at the BCS London meeting rooms, 3-7 August. As well as responding to the comments on the draft TS (see previous item), WG5 finalized the choice of features for the next revision of the standard, see N2073. The additional features are all very small, in accord with the policy of adding only features that address deficiencies and discrepancies in Fortran 2008. For the complete set of additions, see N2078. Since the technical content is now fixed, it was decided that the language should be known informally as Fortran 2015.

It was decided that a fourth Corrigendum to Fortran should be completed as soon as possible after the current WG5 straw ballot on interpretations, see N2061, finishes on 24 August. A fifth Corrigendum will be prepared early in 2016.

Editorial work has started on the Fortran 2015 standard, but there is much left to do, and it is not expected that a draft will be ready to submit to SC22 for country voting until March 2017. After this, a number of formal stages have to be passed, which should lead to publication in July 2018. For more details of the schedule, see N2070.

New Documents

N2079 WG5 straw ballot on N2074 (Reid)
N2078 Complete list of features to be included in next revision (Reid)
N2077 Resolutions of the London 2015 meeting (Muxworthy) - supersedes N2067
N2076 Responses to comments in the vote on PDTS 18508 (copy of N2066)
N2075 Editor's report for WG5/N2074 (Long)
N2074 Draft TS 18508 Additional Parallel Features in Fortran (Long) - supersedes N2056
N2073 Features to be included in next revision (Reid)
N2072 Accelerated keyword (Fanfarillo and Rouson) (slides for presentation)
N2071 WG5 Business Plan and Convener's Report for SC22 2015 Plenary (Reid)
N2070 Strategic plans for WG5 (Reid)
N2069 Features that might be included in next revision (Reid)
N2067 Resolutions of the London 2015 meeting (Muxworthy) - superseded by N2077
N2066 Responses to comments in the vote on PDTS 18508
N2065 Summary of voting on PDTS 18508, Additional Parallel Features in Fortran
N2064 Proposals for revision of Fortran 2008 submitted to WG5, August 2015 - replaces N2063
N2063 US proposals for revision of Fortran 2008 submitted to WG5, August 201

21 July 2015

New Documents

N2062 Fortran Interpretations awaiting WG5 ballot (Whitlock)
N2061 WG5 straw ballot 9 on Fortran 2008 interpretations (Reid)
N2060 UK National Body activity report (Muxworthy)
N2059 UK proposals for revision of Fortran 2008 (Muxworthy)
N2058 Fortran Liaison Report to Ada Committee WG9 (Snyder)

4 June 2015

Coarray TS starts its 2-month DTS ballot

ignificant changes were made to the draft TS on "Additional Parallel Features in Fortran" at the J3 meeting in February. The whole concept of stalling was removed. Instead, the possibility of including a STAT= variable in an image selector was added to make it possible for the programmer to detect a reference to a failed image and take appropriate remedial action. Similarly, the option of including a sync-stat-list to a CRITICAL statement to allow the detection of the failure of the previous image to execute the construct. The subsequent straw WG ballot passed, subject to changes that did not alter the syntax, and with these changes the new draft, N2056, commenced its DTS ballot on 26 May, see ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 N5029. The ballot closes on 27 July.

New index of WG5 documents

NAG has asked WG5 to change the way its documents are accessed, so that each is individally linked. Now when you click above on "WG5 Electronic Document Archive" [Now "Documents"] you will get to a list of all documents with links to those available electronically. They are in reverse order so that the most recent appear first.

New Documents

N2057 Editor's report for WG5/N2056 (Long)
N2056 Draft TS 18508 Additional Parallel Features in Fortran (Long) - supersedes N2048
N2055 Response to the WG5 straw ballot on N2048 (Long and Reid)
N2054 Result of the WG5 straw ballot on N2048 (Reid)

12 March 2015

New Documents

N2053 WG5 straw ballot on N2048 (Reid)
N2052 London 2015 meeting: Preliminary Agenda (Reid)
N2051 London 2015 meeting: Announcement (Reid)
N2050 Index of documents 2001-2050
N2049 Editor's report for WG5/N2048 (Long)
N2048 Draft TS 18508 Additional Parallel Features in Fortran (Long) - supersedes N2040
N2046 Response to the WG5 straw ballot on N2040 (Long and Reid)

2 February 2015

New Documents

N2047 Result of WG5 straw ballot 8 on Fortran 2008 interpretations (Reid)
N2045 Result of the WG5 straw ballot on N2040 (Reid)

1 January 2015

New Documents

N2043 WG5 straw ballot 8 on Fortran 2008 interpretations (Reid)
N2042 Fortran Interpretations awaiting WG5 ballot (Whitlock)
N2041 Editor's report for WG5/N2040 (Long)
N2040 Draft TS 18508 Additional Parallel Features in Fortran (Long) - supersedes N2033
N2039 Response to the WG5 straw ballot on N2033 (Long and Reid)
N2038 Result of the WG5 straw ballot on N2033 (Reid)
N2037 Public Transport in London (Sleightholme) - supersedes N2019
N2036 London 2015 meeting: Local Arrangements (Chivers and Sleightholme) - supersedes N2018

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