!standard B.5 06-11-06 AC95-00135/01 !class Amendment 06-11-06 !status received no action 06-11-06 !status received 06-07-05 !subject Update to language interfaces annex sections? !summary !appendix From: Ben Brosgol Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2006 8:48 AM I recently met Dan Nagle, the chair of J3 (the U.S. Fortran standards committee / T.A.G. to ISO WG5). He commented that, subsequent to the publication of Ada 95, a new version of Fortran (Fortran 2003) was standardized, and that it would be good if the Interfaces.Fortran section could be updated to take into account the new Fortran features. It is of course too late to do this for Ada 2005, but his comment raises a couple of issues. First, as a general policy on the maintenance of the language interfaces sections, should we attempt to track the relevant standards (C, Fortran, COBOL) and amend the Annex B sections as needed? Second, since Dan has specifically asked about Fortran, is anyone interested in analyzing the issues involved with bringing the Fortran interface section into synch with Fortran 2003? He indicated to me that he could probably arrange to be appointed as liaison from J3 to WG9. Links: http://www.j3-fortran.org/ ****************************************************************