Bug status and Stage 3

[Paul Richard Thomas]

Salvatore,


> If my user perspective is of any help, I would say that jumping onto
> this part of the Fortran 2008  standard BEFORE having the bulk of
> Fortran 2003 done, makes no sense.

I agree with you totally.

> Indeed I am rather surprised that the committee included substantial new
> features at a time when no fully compliant F2003 compiler is available
> (IIRC we now have XLF 12 essentially complete, but it's only been out
> for what? A couple months?); had it been me, I would only have
> sanctioned submodules (which where a TR and an extension of concepts
> already in).

I guess that co-arrays could be said to be in the same class - a TR
exists and several vendors have supplied implementations for a while.
An immediate trigger for us is the implementation of co-arrays by g95.

> BTW, this is not to say that co-array are not interesting; they are, but
> I have seen too many attempts at defining "THE" parallel extension for
> "THE" programming language to take them at face value, much less
> throwing substantial resources at them right now.
>

Yes indeed:-)

Thanks for the $1 worth!

Paul