(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5156) [ Draft corrigendum 3]

[Bill Long]

> Please answer the following question "Is N1995, with the references and
> notes removed, acceptable for submission to SC22 for publication as
> Corrigendum 3 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.

No.

Changes that are NOT the reason for my No vote:
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Minor typos in the citations:  [24:14] should be [24:13];  [24:15] 
should be [24:15-16].

Typo in the actual official text:  In the instruction line for the edit 
at [459:17+] remove the space between "2.3.5" and ")".

Reason for No vote:
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I agree with Malcolm's original comment that Interp f08/0086 should be 
failed and restarted. I'm not happy with the proposed last-minute text 
file of changes for these reasons:

1) A main reason for having a vote like this is to agree (or not) on the 
exact form of the PDF file form of the Corrigendum - this is basically 
an "FCD" vote.  That purpose is subverted here because the proposers of 
this path have not supplied the PDF form of their replacements.

2) Another goal of a final vote like this is to reflect on whether we 
have made a technical mistake.  The complexity of the changes proposed 
for f08/0086, and the problems getting them "right" convince me that we 
chose the wrong answer for the interp.  The alternate answer would 
result in a trivial, single edit in the standard, and  would prohibit 
only code like that in the interp example that is confusing at best and 
would never be allowed by any reasonable coding style guide.   The place 
to have this discussion is in the process of restarting the interp.


I would change my vote to YES if the minor corrections above are made 
and the edits for f08/0086 are deleted.


Cheers,
Bill

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