ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5-N1428
 
               Results of the ballot on interpretations

                       John Reid, 27 March 2001

                               90/ JP 
           14  15  32  73  75  197 12  
Cohen       y   y   y   y   yc  y   y   
Gorelik     y   y   y   y   y   y   y  
Morgan      y   y   y   y   y   y   y
Muxworthy   y   y   y   y   yc  yc  y  
North       y   y   y   y   y   y   y  
Schoenauer  y   y   y   y   y   y   y  
Snyder      y   y   y   y   yc  y   y   
Takata      y   y   y   y   yc  y   y   
Whitlock    y   y   y   y   y   y   y  

Comments

75  Cohen

Please fix the typo in the QUESTION section:
viz
> !Alternative: CALL t_asgn_t(a,b)

should be
> !Alternative: CALL t_asgn_t(t_plus_t,a)


75  Muxworthy

"Yes" to 00075 on the assumption that Makki's point is addressed.


75  Snyder

With the change noticed by Maki


75 Takata

The example in the QUESTION includes:

>   PURE FUNCTION t_plus_t(a,b)
>     TYPE(t) t_plus_t,a,b
>     INTENT(IN) a,b
>     t_plus_t = a                                  !defined assignment
> !Alternative: CALL t_asgn_t(a,b)
>     t_plus_t%value = t_plus_t%value + b%value
>   END FUNCTION

The commented-out CALL statement should read:

  !Alternative: CALL t_asgn_t(t_plus_t,a)

This should be mentioned in the ANSWER, or, preferably, the QUESTION itself
be amended accordingly.


F90/000197 Muxworthy

The answer to interp F90/000197 is correct but not helpful.  Section
13.14.76 of F95 (13.13.75 in F90) is the only place in the document
which refers to "machine representable numbers", while the summary
section 13.11.12 uses the term "processor number" which is again the
only usage.  The remainder of the floating point manipulation functions
deal with model numbers, as noted at 13.7. 

NEAREST is thus different from the other functions but it is easy to
overlook this.  The example used in the description still refers to the
basic model however and would appear to indicate that NEAREST(X,1.) will
normally have the same value as X + SPACING(X). 

I am not suggesting a change to the interpretation answer but it would
be helpful to have a note in F200x highlighting this difference, and
giving an example of when NEAREST(X,1.) is different from X +
SPACING(X).  Is this likely to be true only at extreme values?


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All items passed unanimously. 75 clearly needs the change suggested in
the comments. I declare that it is the modified 75 that has passed.