Readers of this mailing list will have seen the announcement that the
Committee Draft of the proposed revised Fortran standard (Fortran
2008) is now available for public comment. As a reminder, the document
is at ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/N1701-N1750/N1723.pdf (7.8Mb) and
is also
available from http://j3-fortran.org/doc/meeting/184/08-007r2.pdf.
Formal balloting is via the member bodies of ISO. This is to invite
those in the UK to contribute to the BSI vote by sending comments to
the BSI Fortran convenor, e-mail d.muxworthy _at_ bcs.org.uk where _at_
should be replaced by the usual symbol. Comments may be at any level,
from broad strategy to suggested minor edits.
Material for the UK ballot should ideally be sent as soon as possible
and should arrive no later than Sunday 13 July 2008. Contributors are
welcome to comment more than once; it is preferable for the BSI Fortran
panel to receive a number of small messages throughout the comment
period
than to receive a few large messages at the end of it. Please use
plain ascii rather than formatted text. Suggestions for changes must
include proposed replacement text.
Readers outside the UK should submit comments through their own
standards body. A full list of JTC1/SC22 members is at:
http://www.iso.org/iso/standards_development/technical_committees/
list_of_iso_technical_committees/
iso_technical_committee_participation.htm?commid=45202
David Muxworthy
BSI Fortran Convenor
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