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Fortran 2008

Fortran 2008 is a minor revision of Fortran 2003.

The final draft of the Fortran 2008 standard, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 5/N1830, was released on June 7, 2010 and is available from the WG5’s FTP server at ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/N1801-N1850/N1830.pdf.

New features include:

• Submodules
• Coarrays
• DO CONCURRENT construct
• CONTIGUOUS attribute
• Internal procedures can be passed as actual arguments
• Procedure pointers can point to an internal procedure

For compiler support, see Fortran 2008 status.

J3 Documents:

• Work Plan
• Schedule

Previous drafts of the standard:

• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 5/N1826 (April 20, 2010)

• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 5/N1791 (August 28, 2009)

• ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 5/N1776 (March 25, 2009)

References:

• Reid, John (2008). The new features of Fortran 2008. ACM Fortran Forum 27, 8-21.