khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - SPD Languages Marketing -- MTS) (06/29/89)
The public review period will be from July 28 to November 24, 1989. Global Engineering, as per ANSI's fund raising needs, is in charge of distribution. Keith H. Bierman |*My thoughts are my own. Only my work belongs to Sun* It's Not My Fault | Marketing Technical Specialist ! kbierman@sun.com I Voted for Bill & | Languages and Performance Tools. Opus (* strange as it may seem, I do more engineering now *)
kerr@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (07/12/89)
The following is copied from a letter sent by Jerrold Wagener, who is
on the X3J3 standards committee.
The second public review of Fortran 8x has been set for July 28 to
November 24, 1989. The official public review document is available from
Global Engineering, Inc. 800/854-7179 (U.S.)
2805 McGaw 714/261-1455 (International)
Irvine, CA 92714 714/261-7892 (FAX)
Whether the cost of this document will be the same ($50) as for the first
public review is not known at this time (but it will probably be close to
this). The last document describing Fortran 8x sent to the entire X3J3
mailing list, X3J3/S8.111, unofficially represented the status of Fortran
8x as of March 1989. While no other major technical changes were involved,
X3J3 made numerous corrections and editorial changes at its May 1989
meeting, which are reflected in the official public review document.
Among the most significant changes to [the proposed] Fortran 8x since
the first public review over a year ago are
removed: the concept of deprecated features
RANGE and IDENTIFY
user-defined elemental functions
specified numeric precision
derived type (data structure) parameters
added: INCLUDE
DO WHILE
MIL-STD bit intrinsics
pointers
a nonadvancing (stream) I/O facility
changed: blanks made significant in free form source
interface blocks expanded (and module procedures simplified)
all intrinsic types parameterized (replaces specified
precision, supports multiple character sets, etc.)
Comment letters may be submitted to
Fortran Public Review, Attn. Lynn Barra
X3 Secretariat - CBEMA
311 First Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20001-2178