RESOLUTIONS OF THE WG5 MEETING ON 17 TO 21 APRIL, 1995

IN TOKYO, JAPAN          

  



Resolutions T1 to T13 were passed by unanimous consent, T14 to T16 by unanimous acclaim.



T1.	Retiring Convenor of WG5

That WG5 expresses its utmost thanks for all the guidance and support its retiring convenor,

Jeanne Martin, has given the Working Group over the past twelve years and for all the work

she has done on behalf of Fortran and of standards more generally.



T2. 	Convenor-elect of WG5

That WG5 welcomes the proposal of the British member body to assume the secretariat of

WG5 and the nomination of Miles Ellis as convenor and urges all member bodies to endorse

this nomination in the SC22 ballot.



T3.	Appreciation of X3J3

That WG5 expresses its most sincere appreciation to X3J3 for progressing development of the

draft Fortran 95 document in accordance with the schedule in the Fortran strategic plan.



T4. 	Content of Fortran 95

That WG5 intends to submit a draft revised standard for Fortran for CD ballot during the

summer of 1995, and directs the editor to prepare a document (X3J3/95-007r1) by May 31,

1995 for this purpose.  The content of this document will be WG5-N1094 (also known as

X3J3/95-007) modified, within this time frame, as follows:

	items 1.1 to 1.10 of WG5-N1112, inclusive

 	item 5 of WG5-N1112

together with any other technical corrections which may be identified during processing of the

draft.   The document for CD ballot should not contain further rationale sections (v. item 3.1 of

WG5-N1112).  If any portion of items 1.4 and 5 are not completed, the CD document will be

as in WG5-N1094 in these respects.



T5. 	Technical Corrigendum 3

That WG5 records its intent to produce a third, final, Technical Corrigendum for the current

Fortran standard at the same time as the registration of the DIS for the revised standard.  All

corrections in this Technical Corrigendum will be incorporated in the DIS before submission to

SC22.  Publication of resolved defects is necessary since the Fortran 90 standard may be the

basis of legal or other contractual requirements.



T6.	Electronic Distribution of Documents

That WG5 endorses the principles for electronic distribution of WG5 documents outlined in

WG5-N1077 and requests its acting convenor to determine the preferences of all its members. 

Further WG5 requests its acting convenor and Jamie Shiers to establish at CERN a WG5 ftp

archive and a WG5 WWW home page and to arrange for copies to be held at subsidiary sites as

may be required.



T7. 	Development of Fortran beyond Fortran 95

That WG5 will respond more quickly to the needs of the Fortran community by aggressively

pursuing Technical Reports of Type 2 between versions of the Fortran standard, with the intent

that the material of such technical reports be integrated into the following revision of the Fortran

standard.  Document WG5-N1111 describes in detail the objectives and nature of these

technical reports.



Accordingly, WG5 directs its acting convenor to submit proposals to the SC22 secretariat for

new work items for the production of these technical reports in time for a decision to be made at

the SC22 plenary meeting, to be held in Annapolis in September 1995.T8. 	Handling Floating Point Exceptions

That WG5 intends to produce a Technical Report in 1996 on handling floating point exceptions

in Fortran; Wolfgang Walter is appointed interim Project Editor and is charged to assemble a

development body and to identify a Project Editor.  The target schedule and initial content of

this technical report are described in document WG5-N1117.



T9. 	Interoperability with C

That WG5 intends to produce a Technical Report in 1996 on interoperability with C; Jamie

Shiers is appointed interim Project Editor and is charged to assemble a development body and

to identify a Project Editor.  The target schedule and outline content of this technical report are

described in document WG5-N1114.



T10. 	Data Type Enhancements

That WG5 intends to produce a Technical Report on handling data type enhancements that

include allocatable components and parameterized derived types; Lawrie Schonfelder is

appointed interim Project Editor and is charged to assemble a development body and to identify

a Project Editor.  The target schedule and outline content of this technical report are described in

document WG5-N1115.



T11.	Standard Preprocessor for Fortran

That WG5 recognizes that preprocessing facilities are an important consideration for many

members of the Fortran community.  However WG5 does not believe that such facilities should

be incorporated into the Fortran Standard (ISO/IEC IS 1539-1).  WG5 therefore invites

members and member bodies to make proposals for further action, including specification of

requirements and nominations for project editor.



T12.	Varying Length Character Strings in Fortran - development of IS 1539-2

That WG5 will revise ISO/IEC IS 1539-2:1994 in line with the revision of ISO/IEC IS

1539:1991 and directs its acting convenor to make the necessary arrangements with the SC22

secretariat.



T13. 	Fortran 2000 Revision

That WG5 intends to produce a first detailed specification of the content of the 2000/2001

revision of Fortran at its November 1995 meeting and therefore requests member bodies to

submit requirements to the convenor no later than 15 September, 1995.  Further, John Reid as

editor of the WG5 Repository of Requirements (Standing Document 5), is directed to remind

members of the conditions for, and the electronic format of the content of, submissions to the

repository.



T14. 	Vote of Thanks for Support for Meeting

That WG5 thanks the Japanese member body (Information Processing Society of

Japan/Information Technology Standards Commission of Japan), Fujitsu, Hitachi and NEC for

generously supporting the meeting.



T15.	Vote of Thanks for Support for Mailing

That WG5 thanks The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd. for copying and distributing papers

for WG5, including those for this meeting.



T16. 	Vote of Thanks

That WG5 wishes to express its appreciation to the acting convenor (Miles Ellis), the secretary

(Malcolm Cohen), the drafting committee and the hosts (Hideo Wada, Masayuki Takata, Kazuo

Nishimura, Minoru Tanaka, Yukimasa Yoshida and Ichiro Honma) for their contributions to

the success of the meeting.



Further that WG5 wishes especially to thank all the hosts for the exceptional kindness and

hospitality shown to visitors throughout the meeting and for the arrangements made for the visit

to Kamakura on the day preceding the meeting.