[J3] Consideration of Paper 18-242 at Meeting 218 (Was: 18-242)

[Damian Rouson]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:08 PM Van Snyder via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org>
wrote:

>
> There was no rationale prepared for Fortran 95, but I remember e-mail
> discussion about the colon syntax in FORALL having been designed with
> the "no specified order" semantics in mind.
>

That makes sense, given the use of the colon notation in array indices.  To
avoid confusion, it would be nice to stick with the commas. To address
Bill's
syntactical concern about commas, maybe a semicolon separator could be
introduced as follows:

DO (i=1,n; j=1,m)

Damian
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