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Subject: Public Review of Fortran 8x
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Date: 11 Jul 89 23:04:03 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!kerr    Jul 10 18:05:00 1989


The following is copied from a letter sent by Jerrold Wagener, who is
on the X3J3 standards committee.

The second public review of Fortran 8x has been set for July 28 to
November 24, 1989. The official public review document is available from

  Global Engineering, Inc.              800/854-7179 (U.S.)
  2805 McGaw                            714/261-1455 (International)
  Irvine, CA 92714                      714/261-7892 (FAX)

Whether the cost of this document will be the same ($50) as for the first
public review is not known at this time (but it will probably be close to 
this). The last document describing Fortran 8x sent to the entire X3J3
mailing list, X3J3/S8.111, unofficially represented the status of Fortran
8x as of March 1989. While no other major technical changes were involved, 
X3J3 made numerous corrections and editorial changes at its May 1989 
meeting, which are reflected in the official public review document.

Among the most significant changes to [the proposed] Fortran 8x since
the first public review over a year ago are

  removed:   the concept of deprecated features
             RANGE and IDENTIFY
             user-defined elemental functions
             specified numeric precision
             derived type (data structure) parameters

  added:     INCLUDE
             DO WHILE
             MIL-STD bit intrinsics
             pointers
             a nonadvancing (stream) I/O facility

  changed:   blanks made significant in free form source
             interface blocks expanded (and module procedures simplified)
             all intrinsic types parameterized (replaces specified
                precision, supports multiple character sets, etc.)

Comment letters may be submitted to 

   Fortran Public Review, Attn. Lynn Barra
   X3 Secretariat - CBEMA
   311 First Street, N.W. 
   Washington DC 20001-2178