X3J3/96-103r2

Date:        May 22, 1996
To:          X3J3
From:        /JOR (Stan Whitlock)
Subject:     Recommendations for Fortran 2000 passed by X3J3/USTAG


Revision 2 of this X3J3 meeting #137 paper documents the X3J3 JOR items that
were recommended as Fortran 2000 requirements by the US TAG.  "Work Plan"
refers to 96-115r2 classifications.  "|" in column 1 marks a change of status
as of meeting #137.

  Work JOR Stat Trgt Title
  Plan Num      Std

| 1.0  000 US   2000 Minor Technical Enhancements
| L.4  003 US   2000 Array Components of Array Structures
  L.2  010 US   2000 Nesting of Internal Procedures
  H.2  012 US   2000 Condition Handling
       015 US   Coll Conditional Compilation {handled as a collateral std}
  M.1  016 US   2000 Command Line Arguments and Environmental Variables
  M.2  017 US   2000 Bit Data Type, String
  1.4  018 US   2000 Controlling Pointer Bounds
  M.3  026 US   2000 Directives
  M.5  027 US   2000 Packaging Implementer Specific Intrinsics in MODULEs
       028 US   Coll Binding to IEEE 754
  M.4  031 US   2000 Varying Length Character with Declared Maximum
  L.1  032 US   2000 POSIX Binding to Fortran 90
  H.5  033 US   2000 Object Oriented Fortran, OOF
|      034 US        Variable Repeat Specifiers in Formats {suggest removal}
  1.12 035 US   2000 Specifying Default Precisions
  L.3  044 US   2000 Unsigned INTEGER Data Type
       048 US   TR   Improve Interoperability between Fortran and ANSI C
       049 X3J3      Generalize Constructors Into Generic Procedures
| 1.11 050 US   2000 Passing specific/generic names
       053 US        Regularize KIND= Arguments Of Intrinsic Functions
  1.2  058 US   2000 Regularize Handling of Pointer Arguments {same as #65}
  H.4  059 US   2000 Pointers to Procedures
| L.5  060 US   2000 Pointer Association Classes
  1.2  065 US   2000 POINTER objects as Operands {same as #58}
| 1.3  066 US   2000 Generic COUNT_RATE Argument for SYSTEM_CLOCK
  1.14 067 US   2000 Greater than 7 Array Dimensions
  1.1  075 US   2000 Remove limitation on statement length
  1.13 077 US   2000 Processor Dependent Features List
  H.3  080 US   2000 Asynchronous I/O (proposed HPFF work)
|      081 US        PRIVATE and SHARED variables for TASK parallelism {remove}
| H.6  082 US   2000 Interval Arithmetic Support
| M.6  086 US   2000 STREAM I/O
       088 X3J3      User specified precedence
       089 X3J3      Generic pointers
| 1.5  091 US   2000 Extend MAX, MIN, etc. to CHARACTER Data Type
| L.7  093 US   2000 Extend Non-advancing I/O to List-Directed I/O
| 1.6  094 US   2000 Extend the Form of COMPLEX Constants
| 1.7  095 US   2000 Lower Case Syntax Elements
| L.8  096 US   2000 Any Kind of Integer for I/O Specifiers
| 1.8  101 US   2000 Liberalize Use of BOZ Constants
|      109 US   2000 Binary stream I/O {subsumed by M.6 #086 Stream I/O}
| L.6  112 US   2000 Change Conformance Rules
| 1.9  113 US   2000 Allow MERGE in constant expressions
| M.7  114 US   2000 Extend ALLOCATE to specify non-KIND type parameters
| 1.10 120 US   2000 Named Scratch Files

X3J3 has decided against deleting any of the nine features listed as
obsolescent in Fortran 95.