[J3] [EXTERNAL] Re: Exception handling - Golang proposal

[Bill Long]

Committee time is certainly a consideration, and how we operate seems like a valid discussion topic at the next meeting.  Although, some of the people affected will not be there, so any decision we might come to would probably need to have a letter ballot.  I would note that we have previously discussed having electronic meetings (Skype, or equivalent), but decided against it. 

However, I see the desire for a smaller revision this time as being mainly driven by implementation lag times that frustrates users and burden the declining number of vendors supplying compilers.  

Cheers,
Bill

> On Jul 7, 2019, at 1:58 PM, Van Snyder via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 16:34 +0000, Bill Long via J3 wrote:
>> We started wth a goal for F202x being a relatively small revision,
>> after three consecutive large revisions.
> 
> F2018 became a large revision because two TS projects, that were
> supposed to have independent development schedules, were essentially
> folded into the development plan for the standard proper.  We spent a
> lot of time at a lot of meetings working on these.
> 
> All of the work of IEEE P 1788 was done by e-mail.  To my knowledge, the
> committee never met face-to-face.
> 
> Most of the work of WG9 (Ada) is done by e-mail.  They meet face-to-face
> once per year.
> 
> One of the topics in Tokyo ought to be whether we can do more business
> by e-mail.  Develop proposals.  Discuss proposals.  Develop
> specifications.  Discuss specifications.  Develop syntax.  Discuss
> syntax.  Develop edits.  Discuss edits.  Process edits as official
> motions.
> 
> If we don't do more of our business off-line between meetings, we need
> to reinstate our previous schedule of four meetings per year.
> Otherwise, even if we do a dinky project that consists only of cleaning
> up interps, we won't meet the three-year schedule that Steve described
> recently.
> 
> 
> 

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