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From: pmontgom@euphemia.math.ucla.edu (Peter Montgomery)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Fortran Extended Standard
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Date: 8 Oct 90 19:18:23 GMT
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	I just received an announcement about a two-month public review 
of X3.198-199x, Programming Language Fortran Extended.  It says in part

	"Programming Language Fortran Extended was previously announced for 
public review as a replacement for ANSI X3.9-1978, FORTRAN Language
Standard.  Since that public review, it has been decided
that the Fortran Extended language will, when approved, be a 
companion specification to ANSI X3.9-1978, not a replacement."

	Is this a new name for Fortran 8x?  If not, does
anyone know 8x features are included here?

	Comments must be RECEIVED by December 18, 1990
(just after my final exams ...).  The document costs $70
for domestic orders, and is available from Global Engineering
Documents, Inc., 2805 McGraw Ave., Irvine, CA 92714,
(714)261-1455 or (800)854-7179.

	[BTW, I received responses to my comments on the
1989 draft of Fortran 8x last week, 10 months after
submitting them.  X3J3 agreed with some of the typos I
pointed out, but not on any of my important requests,
such as extending the intrinsic SQRT function to
return the truncated square root of an integer
or adding a new intrinsics to support multiple precision
integer arithmetic.]

--
        Peter L. Montgomery 
        pmontgom@MATH.UCLA.EDU 
        Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555
If I spent as much time on my dissertation as I do reading news, I'd graduate.