X3J3/97-132 Page 1 of 1 Date: February 11, 1997 To: X3J3/WG5 From: /data Subject: Category-2 Requirements References: WG5/N1238, WG5/N1251, X3J3/97-131 After serious discussion the /data subgroup recommends that the following items from those identified in WG5/N1238 as Category-2 items be included into Fortran 2000: 1(a) Single inheritance as described in paper X3J3/97-131. (b) Allow programmers the ability to call one of a group of procedures based upon the run-time type of a single object. 2 Allow programmers the ability to define their own constructors and destructors.