(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5914) Preview of possible feature survey

[John Reid]

Steve,

Sorry to be slow in commenting on this. I am not happy about have a list 
like this. It suggests that the committee is seriously considering all 
these and that some sort of vote will determine which are chosen. I 
think it would be better just to have the open invitation to make a 
suggestion, with a full explanation of how they would use it and why it 
would make a big difference in their application.

Cheers,

John.

Steve Lionel wrote:
> At Garching we agreed to survey the user community to see what features
> they wanted added to Fortran. I volunteered to create such a survey.
>
> I have put together a sample survey which you can preview at
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Preview/?sm=mQpu1omN0yqfQzTHlOh1EINqgBiSYtQgDwCuXU3_2BipuWire738v3KF9WXKQ5T0Q2
> You can comment in the preview (at least I think you can) by clicking on
> the little speech box icons, or you can send me your comments.
>
> In this iteration I have asked the user to rank the features, which is
> helpful in establishing priorities, but an alternative is star ratings
> or asking to rank each option on a 0-5 scale. These would get a
> different perspective, but I am uncertain which is more useful to us.
>
> I look forward to your comments. Also if you have suggestions to add to
> the list of features, let me know. Everything about this is up in the air.
>
> On a semi-unrelated note, on a suggestion from John and after
> consultation with Malcolm, I have registered the domain wg5-fortran.org
> and am setting up a web site under that domain. This would have the WG5
> content currently hosted by NAG. When that is done, we can have the NAG
> URL redirect to the new one for a while.
>
> Steve
>
>
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