Re: F2008 draft

*** Hendrickson wrote:


Joe Krahn wrote:
It looks like the draft of F2008 is available at J3:
http://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/06 files 06-007.*

Does anyone here have an idea when the public comment period will be? Are non-member comments accepted before then?

There's also a schedule available on the same site. The
current DRAFT is a FIRST DRAFT. The schedule calls for the
final draft to go out for review around August of 2007.

Comments are always welcome (although not everyone who reads
c.l.f agrees). However, ISO and WG5 do impose some
structure on what can be done when. Roughly speaking:
1) gather requirements, 2) cut the requirements list down to
something reasonable, 3) put that stuff into the standard,
4) integrate and polish, 5) review process.

Right now, we're sort of between 3 and 4.

Comments like "feature X is broken because ..." are always welcome.


But how do we know that X is broken, when we've still yet to see a working F2003 compiler? Is Aug 2007 a realistic cutoff for the final draft?

cheers,

Rich
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