J3 February 2020 Meeting#

The J3 Fortran Committee meeting took place in Las Vegas, NV, on February 24-28, 2020.

Attendance#

The following people / companies attended:

Voting members:

Others:

#157 : Rank-agnostic syntax (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/20-120.txt). Passed unanimously with minor changes.
#156 : Protected components (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/20-121.txt). Withdrawn to address conflicting interests.
#160 : Edits for auto-allocate characters (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/20-122.txt). Passed unanimously with minor changes.
Edits for procedure pointer association (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/20-123.txt). Passed unanimously.
#157 : Edits for rank-agnostic bounds (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/20-124.txt). Withdrawn because some edits were missing and need to be added. There were concerns about fitting into the framework of generics later on.
#157 : Edits for rank-agnostic array element and section denotation (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/20-125.txt). Failed (5 v 7). Missing edits, and disagreement on types vs rank-1 integers, the options need to be explored more.
#157 : Edits for rank-agnostic allocation and pointer assignment (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/20-126.txt). Passed unanimously with minor changes.
Interpretation: Public namelist and private variable (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/20-127.txt). Straw vote (0 yes, 8 no, 9 undecided). Passed unanimously with „no” alternative.
Interpretation F18/015 (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/20/20-105.txt). Passed unanimously.

This was on the plan but we did not get to it:

#5 : US 27 POINTER dummy arguments, INTENT, and target modification (https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/18/18-144r1.txt)
#19 : Short-circuiting proposal

More details available at j3-fortran/fortran_proposals #155 and at the official minutes from the meeting.