Is the document marked as N2146, “Fortran 2018 Draft International Standard for Ballot”, the last freely available version of F2018 description? Had it changed significantly before the official standard was issued? And if so, are the changes documented somewhere in “open access”?

[image] msz59: Is the document marked as N2146, “Fortran 2018 Draft International Standard for Ballot”, the last freely available version of F2018 description? I am using https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/18/18-007r1.pdf J3/18-007r1 (F2018 Interpretation Document) 9th October 2018 16:46 T…

@msz59 you might also want to look at the current 202X working draft at https://j3-fortran.org/doc/year/21/21-007.pdf . I’m guessing it would contain the 2018 standard plus corrections etc.

The issue here is that ISO maintains a copyright on the final standard, and issues takedown complaints if they see it publicly available. They want you to pay for a paper copy (which is just something they print from the PDF.) Nobody on the committee uses the official document. Instead, we use the …

[image] sblionel: They want you to pay for a paper copy (which is just something they print from the PDF.) You can also just buy the PDF, for the same price (198 CHF): ISO/IEC 1539-1:2018 Information technology — Programming languages — Fortran — Part 1: Base language …

[image] vmagnin: 198 CHF is 218 $ today, which is probably five to ten times the price people here would accept to pay. A counterproductive price… You may equally check to access ISO norms via other sources. Perinorm for example is one «meta distributor» for national (e.g., French, British, …

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msz59 May 6, 2021, 8:37am 3

That one I also have but it is something different, I guess.

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