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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:

• Work Plan
• Schedule