[J3] Miscount of derived types

[Steve Lionel]

I wrote 20-133 for this, adding some revisions of my own. Discussion 
should take place in https://j3-fortran.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=33

If you have problems accessing the discussion, please let me know.

Steve

On 8/4/2020 10:35 PM, Malcolm Cohen via J3 wrote:
>
> Right, Fortran 2018 added a type but did not update introductory 
> paragraph.
>
> That introductory paragraph should probably be reworded to eliminate 
> the count of the number of types (in case we add anything else). Also, 
> on the face of it, the type count would prohibit a processor from 
> defining additional types in those modules, which is contrary to our 
> general permission for the processor to extend them.
>
> I don’t feel inclined to write an edit paper on this right now, as 
> there is a lot of work I have to do to produce a new draft 007 well 
> before October. Perhaps someone else could give this some 
> consideration, or at least remind me in a couple of months time that 
> something should be done about it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- 
>
> ..............Malcolm Cohen, NAG Oxford/Tokyo.
>
> *From:* J3 <j3-bounces at mailman.j3-fortran.org> *On Behalf Of *William 
> Clodius via J3
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 5, 2020 11:10 AM
> *To:* Robert Corbett via J3 <j3 at mailman.j3-fortran.org>
> *Cc:* William Clodius <w.clodius at icloud.com>
> *Subject:* [J3] Miscount of derived types
>
> In my copy of 18-007r1, Section 17.2 begins with the claim "The 
> modules IEEE_EXCEPTIONS, IEEE_ARITHMETIC, and IEEE_FEATURES define 
> five derived types”. By my count they define six derived types: three, 
> IEEE_FLAG_TYPE, IEEE_MODES_TYPE, and IEEE_STATUS_TYPE, in 
> IEEE_EXCEPTIONS; two, IEEE_CLASS_TYPE, and IEEE_ROUND_TYPE, in 
> IEEE_ARITHMETIC, and one, IEEE_FEATURES_TYPE, in IEEE_FEATURES.
>
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