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WG5 completes processing Fortran 2003 and the TR
WG5 met jointly with J3 in Las Vegas, May 2-7, and completed the preparation of the Draft International Standard (DIS) for Fortran 2003, which is available in pdf and ps formats, and the Draft Technical Report (DTR) for Enhanced Module Facilities, which is available in pdf and ps formats. They have both been sent to SC22 for formal 2-month country ballots. If they pass their ballots, they will be published as they are now, apart from any extremely minor corrections such as formatting errors or typos.
Documents N1599 and N1603 detail the responses to the ballot comments on Fortran 2003 and the TR, respectively. All the technical changes were minor and the extent of editorial changes was not extensive.
To see the abstract of the revision, which lists the major enhancements click here. For an informal description by the convener of the new features click here.
The J3 version of the DIS, which is identical except for the title page and the headers and footers, is available in ps, pdf, text, or source (latex) formats.
WG5 adopted the timetable for the next revision given in N1590. Its aim is for the features of a minor revision to be chosen in February 2006 and for the revised standard to be published in 2009. The new features will be classified according to the 8-point scale in N1594, since it was felt that terms such as 'minor', 'significant' and 'large' were too vague.
J3 resumed its processing of interpretations, deferred while work on the new standard was in progress, and agreed drafts for the next stage (formal letter ballot by J3) for almost all those outstanding.
For the resolutions of the meeting, see N1597. It was attended by the convenor and 19 members, representing 5 member bodies.
New documents since 1 April:
1590 Timetable for Fortran 2003 and the next revision (Reid)
1591 Las Vegas 2004 meeting: Announcement, revised (Reid)
1592 Repository of Requirements (Muxworthy)
1593 UK National Activity Report (Muxworthy)
1594 An 8-point scale of severity for proposed revisions (Reid)
1595 The future of Part 2 (Reid)
1596 The future of Part 3 (Nagle)
1597 Resolutions of the Las Vegas 2004 meeting (Muxworthy)
1599 Response to the Final CD ballot (Maine)
1600 Index for documents 1551-1600
1601 Draft International Standard for Fortran 2003 (Maine)
1602 Draft TR on Enhanced Module Facilities (Snyder)
1603 Response to the PDTR ballot
Both Fortran 2003 and the TR pass their ballots
The FCD (Final Committee Draft) for Fortran 2003 standard has passed its ballot. 7 countries voted "yes", 3 voted "yes, with comments", none voted "no", 2 abstained, and 13 did not vote. Full details of the voting and the comments are in N1583.
The PDTR (Preliminary Draft Technical Report) for extended module facilities has also passed its ballot, with very similar voting figures, 7-2-0-2-13. Full details of the voting and the comments are in N1587.
WG5 is now charged with responding to the comments and preparing a DIS (Draft International Standard) for Fortran 2003 and a DTR (Draft Technical Report) for extended module facilities. The comments are sufficiently minor that it should be possible to do all this during the May meeting (next item). Final ballots for these will take place soon afterwards and hopefully they will both be published this year.
Joint meeting of WG5 and J3, Las Vegas, May 2-7
Overview of WG5 and the Standardization Process
WG5 Officers and Project Editors
WG5 Projects
WG5 Electronic Document Archive
WG5 Email List
Future WG5 Meetings
WG5 currently has two major projects allocated to it by SC22:
Maintenance of Part 1 of
the Fortran Standard (base language),
ISO/IEC 1539-1 : 1997, informally known as Fortran 95
Revision of Part 1 of the Fortran
Standard (base language), informally known as
Fortran 2003
In addition, WG5 is responsible for two other published Standards which have not yet entered a formal maintenance and/or revision phase and two Technical Reports whose latest revisions are ready for publication:
Part 2 of the Fortran
Standard (varying length strings), ISO/IEC 1539-2 : 2000(E)
Part 3 of the Fortran Standard (conditional compilation), ISO/IEC 1539-3 : 1998
Revision of Technical Report (Type 2) on Floating Point Exception Handling, ISO/IEC TR 15580 : 1998
Revision of Technical Report (Type 2) on Enhanced Data Type Facilities, ISO/IEC TR 15581 : 1998
| 2005 (Joint meeting with J3) | 9 to 13 May | Delft, Netherlands |
| 2006 (Joint meeting with J3) | Early February | Las Vegas, USA |
Other useful information relating to the Standardization process can be found on the following pages:
ISO Online - the International Organization
for Standardization's home page
ISO/IEC JTC1 - the joint committee
responsible for all International IT Standards
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 -
the committee with overall responsibility for all International Standards
in the field of Programming Languages and their Environments
NCITS/J3 - the US Fortran
Standards Technical Committee, WG5's Primary Development Body
for Fortran 2003
Guidelines for Bindings to Fortran 90
WG5's (Partial) Glossary of International Standards Terminology
The Convenor would like to thank The Numerical Algorithms Group for generously hosting this web site and the WG5 Electronic Document Archive.
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