Re: decimal to binary

Hello,

David Frank wrote:

After Dick, a J3 member, tried to be nice, and said

"Dick Hendrickson" <dick.hendrickson@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%Mw1f.117887$qY1.33077@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


 > It's a clever one-liner.  Most people don't think

of having the shiftee be a scalar and the shift
count being an array.  But, it's a neat way to provide an
an array of "word" shifted -11, -10, ...0,1 places.
Effectively, word is broadcast to match the shift count
array.


Dave decided to smack J3 again...

I'm reasonably certain that [-11:0] has been propagated into Intel Fortran (windows/linux flavors)
but whether it makes it into Fortran 2008 is another question, if you like this shorthand, everyone shud bug their vendor to provide it in their next release of their current inferior compiler as it will EVENTUALLY put more pressure on the committee to wake up and adapt these very reasonable extensions, some of which trace back to the VISIONARY Microsoft Fortran developers so despised by the main-framers (read RM) on the committee. 

Ah, where to start?

The feature set for f08 is set by WG5, not J3.
In fact, there were several surprises, from J3's point of view,
when the preliminary set was established.  The final feature set
will be established at the joint WG5-J3 meeting here at George Mason
University in February.  So if you're in the Washington, D.C.
area, participate!  Warning, these will be long, working days,
so come ready to contribute!  :-)

Richard is not especially, as far as I know, a "main-framer".
IIRC, he's more a Mac and Linux kind of guy.  But I guess
Richard can defend himself (if he chooses to touch the tar baby).

So, Dave, does "VISIONARY" mean "buggy"?  I hadn't heard.  ;-)
Not being a part of Microsoft's Windows and Office business plan,
not enough resources were spent to make it right.  It's actually
rather nice being under Microsoft's radar.  :-)

BTW, if you're having trouble following the standards process
for f08, J3 has taken some steps to help.  We've put pages, linked
from the home page, describing the schedule and each separate feature
allowed by WG5.  I wrote the 010 and 005 web pages, and Andy,
our web master extraordinaire, made the links work correctly.
I guess Andy and I chose to try to make the process a little easier
to follow, while Dave chose to drop spelling class and become
the comp.lang.fortran village idiot.

www.j3-fortran.org

--
Cheers!

Dan Nagle
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.
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