ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 N1876

          WG5 letter ballot 1 on Fortran 2008 interpretations
                      John Reid, 23 August 2011

This is the first WG5 vote on a set of draft interpretations for Fortran 
2008. They have all been approved in a J3 letter ballot.  

The rules we operate on say:

4. The chair of J3/interp gathers all interp answers that are marked
   "passed by J3 letter ballot" and forwards them to the WG5 convenor.
   The WG5 convenor holds a ballot of individual members; a no vote
   must be accompanied by an explanation of the changes necessary to
   change the member's vote to yes. The answers that pass this ballot
   become "WG5 approved".

   J3/interp reserves the right to recall an interp answer for more
   study even if the answer passes.

5. "WG5 approved" answers are processed into a corrigendum document by
   taking the edits from the interp answers and putting them in the
   format required by ISO.  A WG5 vote is made on forwarding the
   corrigendum to SC22.

The following Fortran 2003 interpretations are being balloted:

Yes  No Number     Title
--- --- F03/0030   IEEE divide by zero
--- --- F03/0048   Control edit descriptors in UDDTIO
--- --- F03/0085   Finalizing targets of pointer or allocatable
--- --- F03/0091   Array components cannot depend on length type parameters
--- --- F03/0096   Can a read statement change the unit value?
--- --- F03/0105   SIZE= specifier and UDDTIO
--- --- F03/0110   Restoring dropped restriction on ENTRY
--- --- F03/0121   Precise FP semantics of the REAL intrinsic
--- --- F03/0123   Implicit typing in derived types
--- --- F03/0124   definition is poorly defined
--- --- F03/0128   Subobjects in namelist output
--- --- F08/0001   Generic resolution with pointer dummy arguments
--- --- F08/0002   Are assumed- or deferred-shape objects allowed in namelist?
--- --- F08/0003   Is a disassociated pointer allowed as an actual DIM 
                   argument?
--- --- F08/0004   Is TARGET argument of ASSOCIATED a pointer or nonpointer 
                   dummy?
        F08/0005*  optional arguments and ASSOCIATED - subsumed by F08/0004
--- --- F08/0006   generic resolution with banned argument combinations
--- --- F08/0007   Can zero have more than one bit sequence representation?
--- --- F08/0008   IEEE exceptions for intrinsic functions
--- --- F08/0009   Is ABS ever required to be the optional IEC 60559 abs?
--- --- F08/0010   deallocating objects that are associated with other objects
--- --- F08/0011   How many times are constructed values finalized?
        F08/0012*  Are constants finalized? - subsumed by F08/0011
--- --- F08/0013   How does finalization interact with allocatable assignment?
--- --- F08/0014   Finalizing assignment to vector-subscripted object
--- --- F08/0015   IMPLICIT
--- --- F08/0016   Can a vector-subscripted argument become undefined?
--- --- F08/0017   Elemental subroutine restrictions
--- --- F08/0018   Impure elemental restrictions
--- --- F08/0019   Transformational Bessel functions
--- --- F08/0020   FINDLOC and logical arguments

* F08/0005 is subsumed by F08/0004 and F08/0012 is subsumed by F08/0011.  
Each pair of these interps must be voted on together.

The text of these interpretations is in N1875.  Each interpretation starts 
there with a row of "-"s.

Please mark the above -Y- in the Yes column for "yes", -C- in the Yes
column for "yes with comment", or -N- in the No column for a "no"
answer {be sure to include your reasons with "no"} and send to

        sc22wg5@open-std.org

by 0900 UK time on Thursday, 22 September 2011, in order to be counted.

Thanks,

John.