ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1145


TO:       WG5
FROM:     US TAG
Subject:  US TAG Recommendations for Fortran 2000 Requirements
Date:     October 30, 1995

The US recommends that WG5 consider the following items (most of which
index the X3J3 Journal of Requirements, document 95-004).  "High" priority
items are considered essential for the success of Fortran 2000.  "Medium"
priority items are highly desirable for Fortran 2000.  There is no implied
priority among the items in each category. 

Priority	JOR #	WG5 #	JOR Item Title

High		000	45	Minor Technical Enhancements

High		012	  5	Condition Handling

High		015	  6	Conditional Compilation

High		016	20	Command Line Arguments; see also JOR items
					040 Obtain the Command Line
					041 Obtain Program Startup Command

High		048	38	Interoperability; see also JOR item
					037 Argument Passing Mechanisms

High		077	51	Processor Dependent Features List

High		080	52	Asynchronous I/O (proposed HPFF work); see also
					OR item 079 Asymchronous I/O

Medium	010	33	Nesting of Internal Procedures

Medium	017	21	Bit Data Type - String

Medium	026	19	Compiler Directives; see also JOR item
					038 Complete Set of Compiler Directives

Medium	027	46	Packaging Implementer Intrinsics in Modules

Medium	031	34	Varying Length Characters with Declared Maximum

Medium	032	47	POSIX Binding to Fortran 90

Medium	033	18	Object Oriented Fortran; see also JOR item
					043 OOP Capabilities

Medium	034	48	Variable Repeat Specifiers in FORMATs

Medium	035	49	Specifying Default Precisions

Medium	044	37	Unsigned INTEGER Data Type

Medium	058	44	Handling of Pointer Arguments

Medium	059	43	Pointers to Procedures

Medium	067	24	>7 Array Dimensions

Medium	075	50	Remove Limitation on Statement Length

Medium	none	16	Allocatable Components of Derived Types

Medium	none	14	Parameterized Derived Types

Medium	081	none	Private and Shared Data in Parallel Processes

Note:This document is a revision to document X3J3/95-224, dated August 25,
1995.  The only changes are to add the "WG5 #" field which references the
WG5 repository, dated October 27, 1995, and to fill in the "JOR #" for newly
entered requirements from 95-004R1, dated October, 1995.