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In the survey, assigning a priority to one category erased the priority in another category if it was the same. In my survey, it erased the priorities for bit strings, automatic allocation, and unsigned integer, for which I wanted to assign "8". Maybe a "not terribly interesting and I don't want to put a relative rank on them" button that can be assigned to more than one would be useful, or just allow leaving it blank without the script sniveling "This question requires an answer" and refusing to submit the survey, along with a button that says "You didn't assign some priorities. Submit the survey anyway?" I want to add more than one "suggestion not listed." E.g., coroutines and iterators, assertions, structured medium-grain parallelism without using "thread" libraries (fork/join construct and asynchronous blocks), new types (not type aliases) constructed from existing ones, numerous minor improvements to constructs, the type system, expressions, variables, the array system, pointers, generics, procedures including intrinsic procedures, operators and assignment, I/O, and modules, but there is no provision for adding more than one. As I remarked in an earlier message, during the 54 years I've been using Fortran, I have accumulated a list of over 150 suggestions, mostly from about 600 colleagues who got to know our group by helping to evaluate the five stages of requirements for Ada, and using our mathematical software libraries. I hope I can update my survey to add more "suggestions not listed." On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 20:43 -0400, Steve Lionel wrote: > For many years, the "web home" of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5 (the > international Fortran standards committee, or WG5 for short) has been > graciously hosted by NAG. I am pleased to announce that WG5 now has > its own web site: https://wg5-fortran.org/ The site is served over > https and is "mobile friendly". > > > The WG5 web site is where you'll find news about what's happening with > the Fortran standard, and links to all WG5 documents. Information on > current and past standards is also available there. > > > On the home page you will see a link to a survey, requesting opinions > on and suggestions for features that you would like to see in the next > Fortran standard, tentatively titled Fortran 2020. If you want to help > shape the future of Fortran, please take a few minutes and fill out > the survey. While the survey will remain open through January 2018, we > will start analyzing responses at the October J3 meeting. Also, the > list of features the survey asks you to rank may be amended based on > suggestions received. > > > I welcome all comments on the web site, and especially if you discover > any problems. Not yet done are the email list indexes and news older > than 2016. > > > Steve Lionel > Retired Intel Fortran developer/support > Twitter: @DoctorFortran > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevelionel > Blog: http://intel.com/software/DrFortran > > > -- > .