Re: vote on first batch of corrections for MPI 2.1

[Hans-Christian.Hoppe@pallas.com]

Dear group,

while most of the items in the first batch are a clear "yes", I'd like to
make a few exceptions:

3., 9., 12., 13.: these create compatibility problems and will require
recompilation of codes. Alternative: introduce the new, correct names, and
keep the old ones as duplicates.

8.: that'll break implementations that do in-place conversions; Eric Salo
at one point was fighting to keep that door open in the MPI-2
deliberations. Just to mention it - he probably never went ahead and
implemented this.

19.: my C++ people tell me that passing objects by value without a
compelling reason is not considered good programming style. Maybe change
the example to use by-reference passing.

These exceptions wouldn't merit a "No" to the whole batch, so it's a
"qualified Yes" from Pallas.

Best regards

Hans-Christian

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