01-110r1

    Issue 307 - What Does INQUIRE Really Return?

To:         J3
From:       Craig Dedo
Date:       January 4, 2001
Subject:    Issue 307 - What Does INQUIRE Really Return?

Issue
A naive reader such as myself has trouble in reconciling the
statements about INQUIRE in 9.8.1.18,24,25,28,29,30 versus those in
9.5.4.4.3.  The 9.8.1.x sections say that INQUIRE returns the
values "in effect".  Section 9.5.4.4.3, in particular note 9.44,
says that io_mode has the "current" values (which sounds like the
ones"in effect" to me), and that INQUIRE returns the values from
the most recent OPEN (or the default).

Analysis
    The intent of the INQUIRE statement in all cases is to return
    the value of the connection modes (a.k.a. properties) at the
    time that the INQUIRE statement is executed.  Therefore, the
    rules in 9.8.1 should hold in all cases.

    Note 9.44 in 00-007r3 is note 9.45 in 01-007.

Edits
    Edits are with respect to the 01-007.

[192:41-43] Replace the sentence with, "The INQUIRE provides values
as specified in 9.8.1.".

[192:44+]       Insert J3 note: "JOR and the editor agree that the
io_mode argument is redundant with respect to INQUIRE and should be
considered for deletion."

[200:29-35] Delete the J3 note.

References
01-007, Fortran 2000 Draft
01-102, Changes to List of Unresolved Issues
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