(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5413) WG5 straw ballot on N2040

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Jan 12 2015, John Reid wrote:

>Please answer the following question "Is N2040 ready for forwarding to
>SC22 as the DTS?" in one of these ways.

3) No, for the reasons given in N2038, N2013 and other votes.  I need to
reiterate that neither response in N2039 even addresses my comments.  I
believe that incorporating the TS into the main standard will cause
serious harm to Fortran, because the (semantic) difficulties cannot be
resolved (let alone specified unambiguously) in the time available.
Indeed, it is not clear even that they ARE soluble, because this TS is
specifying a feature that is beyond the state of the art, and has been
for half a century.  I would be prepared to change my vote to abstain if
the decision to incorporate it were reversed.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.