Subject: What's new

From: Rob Schreiber <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 11:24:50 PDT

In the draft I just sent, the possibility to use

number_of_processors, or
processors_shape

in constant expressions has been removed, as this effectively
forces the compiler to compile for one machine size only.
Constant expressions are required by Fortran 90 in initializations of
variables and parameters and, for example, here:

    equivalence (A( <constnt-expr> ),    stuff )

It does not seem reasonable to allow an expression that may not be
known explicitly to the compiler as the array subscript.

The explanations of SCATTER, PREFIX, and SUFFIX have all been reworked, too.

Rob