ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 - N1069


From:		jwagener@amoco.com
Date:		Sun, 13 Nov 94 22:03:45 -0600
Subject:	JLW informal report on X3J3 meeting #131, Boston
To:		sc22wg5@dkuug.dk

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