Since the latest edition of “Modern Fortran Explained” was published over two years ago, a number of errors and other infelicities have come to light. Further, a number of interpretations of the standard by the standards committees require modifications to the book.
These changes will be incorporated progressively into future printings but, in the meanwhile, the most important ones have been gathered into an errata file, as promised at the bottom of p. vii of the book:
Unfortunately, security considerations mean that this file is no longer available, and no simple alternative was possible. I am currently away from home, but will post the file here in 10 days or so.
Please note that a completely restructered and revised version of MFE, also incorporating Fortran 2023, will be published late this year. It will reference many files that will be available to download from a companion website provided by our publisher.
I always found it strange the cover of such an important book on modern Fortran shows in the background Fortran code snippet toward a object-oriented (OO) approach toward programming.
Yet the OO paradigm gets quite low priority when it comes to enhancements to the language standard, this in spite of two of the authors being extremely influential forces on the standard committee!
It would be nice if one could buy both the print and e-book version at a discount, since people will both read the book straight through and later use it as a reference.
I look forward to two other books on Fortran that Amazon says will be published this year.
Maybe we could have really cool hand colored drawings of people in native costumes from around the world. Oh wait. That idea is already taken
Yours was from Finland if I recall correctly.
(If Michael Metcalf or any other authors object, I can take the mirror down.)
Hosting on a community website like the fortran-lang website or the publisher’s website would be preferred. I recommend against Dropbox in the long term as the Internet Archive Wayback Machine tends to not archive Dropbox links in my experience. FTP also isn’t included in the Wayback Machine, but some people manually upload mirrors of FTP servers to the Internet Archive, as I did here.
On a related note, I have a GitHub repository with a fork of Michael Metcalf’s convert.f90 including a test file he sent me that I don’t think he’s posted elsewhere.
Also, a lot of nice Fortran resources have disappeared from the internet. If you’ve saved some nice resources that are no longer available and you can make them available, I’d recommend doing so. Uploading files to the Internet Archive is straightforward.
Thank you @btrettel but when I looked at that directory it seemed to give errata to the F2003 edition. What Mike Metcalf intends to make available is errata to the F2008/2018 edition of Modern Fortran Explained. (I am one of many people keenly awaiting the F2023 edition.)
The directory contains errata for multiple books. The filenames aren’t clear, however. edits.pdf is the “Errata list for Modern Fortran Explained Incorporating Fortran 2018 (Metcalf, Reid and Cohen, OUP)”.
