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UK requirements for next revision of Fortran language
Fortran 2003 is expected to be published as a standard later this year and WG5
is preparing to consider requirements for the next revision of the language.
Proposals from users go first to the national member body (BSI in the case of the
UK) before being forwarded to the ISO committee.
The Fortran Specialist Group is holding a meeting
in March 2005 to discuss UK requirements. If you are unable to attend anyone in the UK is
invited to make proposals, using the template below. They should be sent to me at the
address below before May 2005.
Please use the following headings:
| Title: | this must be short and informative (it will be used
in an index) |
| References: | are ISO standards or SC22, WG5, or J3 paper
numbers (may be blank) |
| Basic Functionality: | a short description |
| Rationale: | reasons for standardizing the feature including
the expected users of the feature |
| Estimated Impact: | indicates other features that would be
affected and explains how they would be
affected |
| Detailed Specification: | as much detail as possible should
be supplied |
Formally, those living outside the UK should submit proposals through their own
national standards body. The following are also members of the ISO Programming
Languages Committee and had votes on the Fortran FCD: Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland,
Italy, Japan, DPR of Korea, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Russian
Federation, Romania, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, USA. In addition the
following are 'observer' members and are permitted but are not obliged to vote:
Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia,
Israel, Kenya, New Zealand, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro, Singapore, Sweden,
Thailand, Turkey.
A full list
of ISO members is available on the ISO web site. However in case of difficulty
please send comments to me.
David Muxworthy
BSI Fortran Convenor
d.muxworthy@bcs.org.uk
March 2, 2004
Requirements submitted to date
The requirements submitted for consideration by the BSI panel at the time of
writing are:
- Coarray Fortran, a parallel extension to array processing
- Decimal floating point arithmetic, an extension to take advantage of
coming decimal hardware
- Conformance to IEEE 754R, also for decimal arithmetic
- Improved Elemental capability, an extension to relax global parameters
temporarily
- Kind environment specification, an extension to make the kinds
implemented in a process more easily accessible to the programmer
It does not necessarily follow that these will all be submitted to WG5 for
further processing.
David Muxworthy
BSI Fortran Convenor
d.muxworthy@bcs.org.uk
March 24, 2004
Comments on this or any other of the Group's pages should be sent by e-mail to the BCS FSG Web Editor, Peter Crouch, at pccrouch@bcs.org.uk
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