ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N964

To:	  X3J3 and WG5
From:	  Jerry Wagener
Subject:  JLW informal report on X3J3 meeting 128, Palmdale, CA, 94 Feb 7-11
Date:	  14 February 94

The objectives of this meeting were to progress the work on the WG5 B9
requirements and to continue processing interpretations. In the course of the
meeting the editorial processes for Fortran 95 were fleshed out a bit and
clarified.

The 007 document is the current draft of F95; an updated version of this
document will be placed on the X3J3 server after every X3J3 meeting (the current
version on the server is F90 as modified by WG5 Technical Corrigenda 1). Each
version of the 007 will be prepared by the editorial committee from the previous
version and the OapprovedO items in documents 006, 008, 009. The 006 contains
corrigenda, the 008 contains material of an editorial (nontechnical) nature, and
all noncorrigenda actions for F95 of a technical nature are placed in the 009;
paper 94-101 contains guidelines for preparing 009 items.

Actions on WG5 B9 items at this meeting:

A1 - corrigenda and edits: 
     drafted X3J3 responses to the following 21 CCI items in document 006: 
     000, 001, 007, 012, 028, 087, 088, 096, 122, 125, 135, 136, 137, 142, 145,
     148, 156, 160, 163, 166, 172. These will be placed on the post-meeting
     X3J3 letter ballot.

A2,A3 - FORALL statement, construct: 
        papers 94-096,097 placed in 009 with status OX3J3 consideration in
progressO

A4 - PURE functions: 
     paper 94-098 placed in 009 with status OX3J3 consideration in progressO 
     (and see related item below on ELEMENTAL functions)

A5 - MAXLOC, MINLOC extensions: 
     paper 94-037 placed in 009 with status Oapproved by X3J3O

B1 - object initialization: 
     paper 94-031r2 placed in 009 with status OX3J3 consideration in progressO

B3 - allocatable components: 
     paper 94-065 describing favored approach included in post-meeting
documents;
     may be added to 009 at the next meeting

B4.1 - minimal, exact field widths: 
       paper 94-022 placed in 009 with status Oapproved by X3J3O

B4.2 - language evolution: 
       paper 94-047r1 (aka 94-047a) placed in 009 with status Oapproved by X3J3O
       with the following two modifications - (1) the five deleted features will

       be fully described in Annex B, and (2) ENTRY removed from the list of new
       obsolescent features

B4.3 - comments in NAMELIST, List Directed: 
       paper 94-021 placed in 009 with status Oapproved by X3J3O; because of a
       technical problem, list directed not included - see paper 94-087

C2 - derived type parameters: 
     straw vote favoring paper 94-042r2; may be added to 009 at the next meeting

C3 - allow user-defined functions in specifications:
     straw vote favoring paper 94-075r1 that would allow PURE functions to be 
     used in specifications; may be added to 009 at the next meeting

C4 - support IEC 559 (IEEE) hardware: 
     vote to recommend that WG5 prepare a new work item for a Fortran binding 
     to IEC 559 and drop this item as a Fortran 95 requirement (paper 94-088r1)

C5 - exception handling: 
     tutorial and straw votes on papers 94-020,086; 
     work will continue on this item at the next meeting

The status of all of the WG5 B9 items is summarized in paper 94-089. 
Some other actions at this meeting:

- straw vote to hold letter ballot following meeting to recommend withdrawal 
  of X3.9-1978, Fortran 77 (paper 94-073)

- discussion on adding the HPF intrinsics (paper 94-012); 
  appears headed for the 009 at the next meeting

- discussion on nesting WHERE (paper 94-014); 
  appears headed for the 009 at the next meeting

- discussion on ELEMENTAL functions (paper 94-052); 
  appears headed for the 009 at the next meeting

- TAG vote to recommend that the US vote YES on the ISO_VARYING_STRING standard

- Kurt Hirchert appointed Head of Delegation for the US at the WG5 meeting 
  next August; other delegation members will be identified by email

The next X3J3 meeting is 94 May 2-6 in Incline Village, NV.

Jerry Wagener
94 Feb 14