02-329r1 Public Review Comments 12, 13, and 14 About Square Brackets in Fortran To: J3 From: Craig Dedo Date: November 13, 2002 Subject: Public Review Comments 12, 13, and 14 About Square Brackets in Fortran ---------- #12 ---------- From: William Walster Reply To: William Walster Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 1:56 PM To: Donovan, Deborah; psa@ansi.org Cc: bill.walster@Eng.Sun.COM Subject: Square Brackets I am writing to request that the proposed use of square brackets "[.]" in the Fortran 2000 standard be reconsidered. It is difficult for me to believe that the proposed use of square brackets has higher priority than keeping them available to support interval data types. ---------- #13 ---------- From: Wayne Hayes Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:12 PM To: Donovan, Deborah; psa@ansi.org Subject: Square Brackets in Fortran Hello. I echo Bill Walster's request that square brackets be used to represent intervals in standard Fortran. It's hard to think of a more standard meaning of [a,b] than to mean "the interval between a and b". ---------- #14 ---------- From: David Bogle Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 5:43 AM To: Donovan, Deborah Cc: Bill.Walster@Eng.Sun.COM Subject: Square Brackets in Standard Fortran I would like to support this request from Bill Walster. As an active researcher and practitioner in numerical and computational techniques for solving Chemical Engineering problems, where interval techniques have a strong role to play and Fortran is still a key standard, the use of square brackets for this purpose is of key importance to us. J3 Response: J3 is aware of the conflict with this syntax. J3 and WG5 have carefully considered this issue. J3 and WG5 prefer the use of square brackets for array constructors. References 02-007r3, Fortran 2000 Committee Draft [End of J3 / 02-329r1]