Jan van Oosterwijk writes:
> Does this mean that the decision has been taken to informally name the
> new standard "Fortran 2000" ?
Yes. That decision was made long ago and has never been changed. I
have seen discussions of other possibilities here and on
comp.lang.fortran, but the draft calls itself Fortran 2000 and I don't
recall any proposals to change that even being actually proposed in
committee, much less passed.
Of course, like anything else, it is subject to possible change
until the standard is actually approved, but that is what is in the
draft right now (and has been for many revisions).
My completely personal opinion is that I'd like to leave it that way
for two reasons, both quite mundane.
1. I don't particularly care to go through the document and make sure
that all the places that would need to be changed are changed.
Not that I think this would be really hard - I doubt it is a large
number of places. But it is certainly harder than leaving it
alone.
2. I've gotten used to calling it that.
One is free, of course, to suggest a change as part of a public
comment. If that's among the dozen or two most important things one
can find to criticize, then I'll be surprised. I've got a lot more
criticisms than that myself.
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