To: J3                                                     J3/23-175
From: Reuben Budiardja & Bill Long
Subject:  BITS Type for F202Y
Date: 2023-June-12
Ref: J3/07-007r2.pdf

Introduction
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This paper describes the BITS type as a proposed feature for F202Y.
Historically the BITS type was already included in a draft of Fortran 2008
before being removed from its final inclusion.

A BITS data type is useful for non-numeric programming and enhance handling
of binary, octal, and hexadecimal constants. The BITS type has a set of
values composed of ordered sequences of bits. The number of bits in the
sequence is specified by the kind type parameter.