(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4238) WG5 ballot on the draft FDIS

[David Muxworthy]

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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:51:19 -0700
From: Robert Corbett <robert.corbett at oracle.com>
Reply-To: robert.corbett at oracle.com
To: sc22wg5 at open-std.org
Subject: Re: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4219) WG5 ballot on the draft FDIS

                       WG5 letter ballot on N1814

                        John Reid, 15 March 2010

This is the letter ballot that WG5 agreed to hold on the draft FDIS for
Fortran 2008. This has been constructed by the editor in accord with
resolution
LV6 of the recent WG5 meeting (see N1811) with the few very minor  
additional
changes that are detailed in N1822.

Please answer the following question "Is N1814 ready for forwarding  
to SC22
as the FDIS for Fortran 2008?" in one of these ways.

1) Yes.
2) Yes, but I recommend the following changes.
3) No, for the following reasons.
4) Abstain.

This is an individual vote. Please send your vote to c22wg5 at open-std.org
to arrive by 9 a.m. (UK time) on April 12th 2010.


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I vote no.

I vote no because of the problems with the proposed standard that
were found during March 2010, namely, the conflicts between the
expanded definition of the term "not present" in Section 12.5.2.12
and the specifications of some of the intrinsic functions, and the
problem with generic resolution using the POINTER attribute to
disambiguate references.  I am concerned that approving the
standard and then resolving the problems through the interpretation
process will favor solutions that involve small changes to the
standard over the best overall solution.

I shall change my vote from no to yes, perhaps with comments, if a
note is added explaining the problems and making it clear that a
possibly significant change to the approved standard is expected.

Robert Corbett

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