J3/02-126 Date: February 8, 2002 To: J3 From: Dick Hendrickson Subject: Chapter 13, editorial All comments (unless otherwise noted) apply to the January 2002 PDF version of 007. 1) Section 13, page 277, line 3. Replace a tautology with current status. Proposal: Change "Intrinsic subroutines may be elemental" to "Some intrinsic subroutines are also elemental" 2) Page 278:17, make the section title singular, there is only one bit model Proposal: 278:17, change "models" to "model" 3) Page 279:23-24 The sentence is awkward and doesn't use the correct terms. I think the trailing "them" dangles. Proposal: Change 279:23-24 "The numeric manipulation and inquiry functions provide values related to the parameters and other constants related to them." To "The floating-point manipulation functions (13.5.10) and numeric inquiry functions (13.5.6) the values of the parameters and other values related to the models." 4) Page 280, note 13.6. The last line of the example shows more than what it is intending to show and is confusing. Proposal: In note 13.6 Change CMPLX(Y=B, KIND=M, X=A) to CMPLX((X=A, Y=B, KIND=M) 5) Page 280, note 13.7 The description of BACK is untrue (or misleading) I'd read "indicate" to mean if it is present then the scan is backwards. But, it's also got to be TRUE Proposal. Note 13.7 Change description of BACK to "Controls whether or not a string scan is to be from right to left (backwards)" 6) Page 282:15 We have a whole section of character functions, LEN seems out of place here and should be with the other character functions like LEN_TRIM. Proposal Move 282:15 to just before 281:17 7) Page 282:13 BIT_SIZE should go with the other numeric inquiries; it's quite a bit like DIGITS. Proposal Move 282:13 to just before 281:41