Fortran Wiki
Fortran 2008

Fortran 2008 is planned to be a minor revision of Fortran 2003.

The latest draft of the Fortran 2008 standard, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG5/N1791 (≈ J3/09-007r3), was released on August 28, 2009. The full text is available here: ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/N1751-N1800/N1791.pdf.

The previous draft, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG5/N1776, dated March 25, 2009, is available here: ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/N1751-N1800/N1776.pdf.

For compiler support, see Fortran 2008 status.

Planned features:

  • Submodules
  • Coarrays
  • Internal procedures can be passed as actual arguments
  • Procedure pointers can point to an internal procedure

J3? Documents: