(j3.2006) [ukfortran] WG5 letter ballot on draft Corrigendum 3

[John Reid]

Malcolm,

The new mjc002 is fine by me. I will change my vote.

Cheers,

John.



Malcolm Cohen wrote:
> Umm, please don't change the name to mjc003, that would be a totally
> different paper!  Very confusing to me.
>
> ...
>> Improving this wording to avoid possible misreading would be a trivial
>> editorial
>> matter.
> ...
>> We are in agreement here. I would like to keep the sentence. How about
>> adding a bit more of the old sentence to remove any possible confusion?
>
> Of course.
>
> ...
>> OK, but I think a bigger change needs to be made to 96:28. Here is my
>> suggestion:
>>
>> [96:28] p2, replace the line by "The rank of an implied-shape array
>>         is the number of <assumed-implied-spec>s in the
>>         <implied-shape-or-assumed-size-spec> or <implied-shape-spec>."
>
> I take your point, but why use 10 words when 2 will do?  It is the
> number in the "<array-spec>", i.e. I greatly prefer
>
> [96:28] "<implied-shape-spec>s" -> "<assumed-implied-spec>s"
>         and "the <implied-shape-spec-list>" -> "its <array-spec>".
>
> The sudden appearance of <array-spec> might be a bit off-putting, so I
> recommend changing the p1 edit so it says
>   "with an <array-spec> that is"
> instead of
>   "by",
> and this seems clearer anyway.
>
> Attached is a revised mjc002.  What do people think?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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