(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5066) [ukfortran] J3 work plan

[Van Snyder]

On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 07:59 -0500, Bill Long wrote:
> ... arithmetic IF statements... are problematic when 
> the test is on a REAL value since the value could be not a number, or 
> the test is implementation-dependent when the value is too close to 
> zero....   Arguably, these issues are not relevant if the 
> test value in the arithmetic IF is integer.  But it does not really
> make sense to modify the feature with that limitation at this point.
> There are better ways to write the code today.

Better ways to write code today don't help with legacy code, unless you
get funding to re-write it or upgrade it to newer practices.