Editing Fortran (section)

===Fortran 2008===
ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010, informally known as Fortran 2008, was approved in September 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=N1836, Summary of Voting/Table of Replies on ISO/IEC FDIS 1539-1, Information technology – Programming languages – Fortran – Part 1: Base language|url=https://wg5-fortran.org/N1801-N1850/N1836.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115003040/https://wg5-fortran.org/N1801-N1850/N1836.pdf |archive-date=January 15, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Fortran 2008 – Last Working Draft|url=http://www.j3-fortran.org/doc/year/10/10-007.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512222210/http://www.j3-fortran.org/doc/year/10/10-007.pdf |archive-date=May 12, 2014 |url-status=live|publisher=Gnu.Org|access-date=May 10, 2014}}</ref> As with Fortran 95, this is a minor upgrade, incorporating clarifications and corrections to Fortran 2003, as well as introducing some new capabilities.  The new capabilities include:

* Sub-modules – additional structuring facilities for modules; supersedes ISO/IEC TR 19767:2005
* [[Coarray Fortran]] – a parallel execution model
* The [[Scalable parallelism|DO CONCURRENT]] construct – for loop iterations with no interdependencies
* The CONTIGUOUS attribute – to specify storage layout restrictions
* The [[Dynamic scoping|BLOCK construct]] – can contain declarations of objects with construct scope
* [[Recursive data type|Recursive allocatable components]] – as an alternative to recursive pointers in derived types

The Final Draft international Standard (FDIS) is available as document N1830.<ref>N1830, Information technology – Programming languages – Fortran – Part 1: Base language [ftp://ftp.nag.co.uk/sc22wg5/N1801-N1850/N1830.pdf]{{dead link|date=January 2016}}</ref>

A supplement to Fortran 2008 is the [[International Organization for Standardization]] (ISO) Technical Specification (TS) 29113 on ''Further Interoperability of Fortran with C'',<ref>{{cite ISO standard |csnumber=45136 |title=ISO/IEC TS 29113:2012 – Information technology – Further interoperability of Fortran with C}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wg5-fortran.org/N1901-N1950/N1917.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115013236/https://wg5-fortran.org/N1901-N1950/N1917.pdf |archive-date=January 15, 2018 |url-status=live|title=Draft of the Technical Specification (TS) 29113|website=wg5-fortran.org}}</ref> which has been submitted to ISO in May 2012 for approval. The specification adds support for accessing the array descriptor from C and allows ignoring the type and rank of arguments.