X3J3/96-079 (Page 1 of 1) Date: April 29, 1996 To: X3J3 From: Kurt W. Hirchert Subject: JOR Item No. 113 113 Allow MERGE in constant expressions <KEYWORDS> MERGE, EXPRESSIONS, PARAMETER, CONSTANT <STATUS> Registered <TARGET> <SUBGROUP> <VERSION> 1 <REQUIREMENT> Modify the limitations on initialization expressions in some way that would allow the MERGE intrinsic to be used. <JUSTIFICATION> It is possible to work around the lack of MERGE, at least for integer relations, but the result tends to be obscure in the extreme. <ESTIMATED IMPACT> The document changes will likely be difficult to formulate, but well localized. The changes to existing processors should be similarly localized. <SUBMITTED BY> Kurt W. Hirchert, hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu <HISTORY> <EVENT> 29 April 96: submitted </HISTORY> </FORTREQ> -- Kurt W. Hirchert hirchert@ncsa.uiuc.edu National Center for Supercomputing Applications