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

[Bill Long]

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Damian Rouson via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:08 PM Van Snyder via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> DO (i=1,n; j=1,m)

Semicolon ends the statement.  I don’t think we use | for anything yet.  But I’m still convinced that the least change to achieve the goal is best - just reuse the DO CONCURRENT syntax. 

Cheers,
Bill


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> Damian

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