(j3.2006) Asymmetry of REAL, CMPLX intrinsics

[Robert Corbett]

Van Snyder wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:13 -0500, Dan Nagle wrote:
> 
>>>2.  Why make work for ourselves and the editor by throwing out stuff
>>>that's already developed?  Let's focus on getting what we have done
>>>right.
>>
>>What makes you think everything we've done so far is right?
> 
> 
> Um... isn't that why we want to get it right, not just done?
> 
> 
>>And the vendors are still complaining that there's too much to do.
> 
> 
> and the users are complaining we haven't done enough.  Sounds like we've
> hit the sweet spot.

Here at Sun, we are having trouble finding users who want much of
Fortran 2003, much less who think Fortran 2008 is too small.  You
might be surprised to learn how few people are pounding at the doors
for UDDTIO.

Bob Corbett